A towering figure, a burning temple, a commune in the desert. Does this sound like an independent film? A popular novel? It’s not. This is going to be a topical post, because it is about a festival which occurs each year in the week leading up to and the weekend of Labor Day.

It’s called Burning Man, and it takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert, 120 miles north of Reno, Nevada. When people speak of ‘the middle of nowhere’, it’s possible that this is the kind of place that have in mind – for the majority of the year, it really is a desert, with no sign of human habitation, and barely any that humans have even set foot there. However, for this one week, the area becomes a bustling metropolis, almost overnight. Last year over 49,000 people came to join in [...]