BURNING MAN

 

 
Participants are urged to immerse and express themselves in some creative capacity – through making art, playing music, dressing up, walking on stilts, or simply being beautiful. Burning Man says, in effect, don’t come unless you can contribute something fun, playful, glamorous, or intoxicating to the proceedings. For many participants, it’s a deeply transformative experience, one where they are encouraged to break out of the confines of old identities and express themselves in new and inventive ways. The result is a loosely structured event marked by a kind of unabashed creativity that is sometimes silly, often weird, occasionally brilliant, and always wildly entertaining.

-- photographer Scott London