Each year, participants in the Burning Man Festival travel to the playa of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to form a temporary city—a self-reliant community populated by performers, artists, free spirits, and more. An estimated 70,000 people from all over the world came to the 31st annual Burning Man to dance, express themselves, and take in the spectacle, themed this year as “Radical Ritual.” Gathered below are some of the sights from this year, photographed by Reuters photographers Jim Urquhart and Jim Bourg.
Photos From Burning Man 2017
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Read moreParticipants watch the sun set behind the Man as approximately 70,000 people from all over the world gathered for the annual Burning Man arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada on September 2, 2017. #
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Read moreThe "Rabid Transit" Burning Man art car erupts with flames from its onboard propane poofers during the 4th day of Burning Man 2017. #
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Read moreA man wears a mask as he dances in the Black Rock Desert on August 29, 2017. #
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Read moreA marionette walks across the playa before The Temple burn on September 3, 2017. #
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Read moreBlack Rock City, seen from above the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, on September 1, 2017. #
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Read moreBurning Man participants react as a person on an art car waves and flashes them a peace sign as they bicycle through Black Rock City during the 4th day of Burning Man 2017. #
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Read moreDavid Huffman is covered by dust during Burning Man on August 29, 2017. #
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Read moreTwo participants embrace as an art installation burns in the Black Rock Desert on August 31, 2017. #
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Read morePeople climb atop Death Guild's Thunderdome to watch the fights below on September 1, 2017. #
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Read moreParticipants fight in Death Guild's Thunderdome on September 1, 2017. #
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Read moreBurning Man participants and art cars are dwarfed by a large dust storm rolling across the desert on August 30, 2017. #
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Read moreFlames shoot from the Flower Tower in the Black Rock Desert on August 31, 2017. #
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Read moreThe mutant vehicle Abraxas travels across the playa on September 1, 2017. #
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Read moreBurning Man participants dance on and around "The Penetrator" art car near the effigy of "The Man" (left) on August 29, 2017. #
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Read moreBurning Man participants visit artist Douglas Ruuska's art project "House of Enlightenment" in the midst of a dust storm on the 3rd day of Burning Man 2017. #
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Read moreDerek Schoonmaker walks on the playa with his helmet made of android phones on August 31, 2017. #
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Read moreA Burning Man participant walks through a desert dust storm in formal clothes on her way to a wedding in the middle of the desert on August 30, 2017. #
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Read moreRebecca Wyatt places a wedding ring on the finger of Dustin Smith as they are married in the middle of the desert during the 4th day of Burning Man 2017. #
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Read moreThe sun sets on over the playa on September 1, 2017. #
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Read moreParticipants walk to The Temple burn on September 3, 2017. #
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Read moreThe effigy of "The Man" that will be burned at the culmination of the 2017 Burning Man festival, on the 4th day of the festival. #
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Read moreBurning Man participants from the "Revolutionary Motion" fire conclave spin fire whips in front of the effigy of the Man just before the effigy is burned on September 2, 2017. #
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Read moreBurning Man participants gather by the thousands in front of a circle of large art cars to watch the effigy of the Man burn on September 2, 2017. #
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Read moreThe effigy of the Man bursts into the flames at the "Man Burn" on September 2, 2017. #
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Read moreParticipants watch The Temple burn on September 3, 2017. #
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Read moreThe Man is engulfed in flames as thousands watch on September 2, 2017. #
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Read moreParticipants watch The Temple burn on September 3, 2017. #
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Read moreParticipants gather at the remains of the Man in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada on September 3, 2017. #
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