Taylor & Kelly Spring are a nouveau circus family, and just like the old circus families they are continuing the tradition of living, breathing and eating circus every day as well as passing on the skills to their child. Although they weren’t born into circus like many of the families that work under the big top, they are welcomed, since the population of circus dynasties has dwindled over the years and new blood is a boon, especially when it is as versatile as Mr. Spring (Taylor’s stage name), the hand balancer and acrobat.

like the old circus families they are continuing the tradition of living, breathing and eating circus every day as well as passing on the skills to their child. Although they weren’t born into circus like many of the families that work under the big top, they are welcomed, since the population of circus dynasties has dwindled over the years and new blood is a boon, especially when it is as versatile as Mr. Spring (Taylor’s stage name), the hand balancer and acrobat. An equal but different talent is his wife Kelly Spring, the photographer and hooper who found herself documenting their time in Sarasota this past winter as a way to both distract herself and rekindle her love affair with the medium. Although she spent much of her time chasing their toddler around and  craning her neck to watch h...