Every year, participants in the Burning Man Festival descend on 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 30th annual Burning Man to dance, express themselves, and take in the spectacle. Gathered below are some of the sights from this year, photographed once again by Reuters photographer Jim Urquhart.
Photos From Burning Man 2016
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Read moreParticipants dance and climb on an art installation as approximately 70,000 people from all over the world gather for the 30th annual Burning Man arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada on August 31, 2016. #
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Read moreAn aerial view of the 30th annual Burning Man arts and music festival on August 31, 2016. #
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Read moreParticipants gather around The Space Whale art installation on August 29, 2016. #
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Read moreMembers of the TrashKan Marchink Band perform in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada on August 29, 2016. #
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Read moreParticipants walk through an art installation on August 30, 2016. #
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Read moreConstruction work continues on the Man on August 30, 2016. #
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Read moreA portrait of Erin Searcy as she explores an art installation at Burning Man 2016 on August 29. #
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Read moreAn anvil is launched into the air with explosives in Nevada's Black Rock Desert on August 29, 2016. #
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Read moreDanicorn Hlavinka cries at the Temple Project on August 30, 2016. #
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Read moreThe Man is illuminated at the 30th annual Burning Man festival on August 31, 2016. #
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Read moreParticipants watch the sunset from the Tower of Ascension on August 29, 2016. #
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Read moreHeather Brianna dances in the Black Rock Desert on August 31, 2016. #
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Read moreParticipants watch the flames on the Spire of Fire on August 29, 2016. #
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Read moreA participant climbs on an art installation on August 31, 2016. #
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Read moreBurning Man participants watch the flames of the mutant vehicle on August 31, 2016. #
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Read moreAn aerial view of Black Rock City during Burning Man on August 31, 2016. #
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Read moreA participant walks past an art installation on August 30, 2016. #
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Read moreJody Friedman and Jeff Montgomery sit in front of the Playa TV on August 30, 2016. #
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Read moreA participant rides a teeter-totter on August 30, 2016. #
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Read moreBurning Man participants dance on August 30, 2016. #
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Read moreA participant looks from a hatch in a segment of a converted 747 in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada on August 29, 2016. #
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Read moreKatapult Sandra (left) and Divine Mustache, their Playa names, dance on stilts on August 29, 2016. #
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Read morePeople gather at the Temple Project on August 30, 2016. #
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Read moreDust blows past an art installation in the Black Rock Desert on August 30, 2016. #
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Read moreParticipants on bicycles are engulfed by dust on August 30, 2016. #
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Read moreDust blows past an art installation on August 30, 2016. #
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Read moreA Burning Man participant is engulfed by dust in Nevada's Black Rock Desert on August 30, 2016. #
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