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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Participants 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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Burning 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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Burning 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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