Fireworks and flames engulfed the woodwork man on Saturday night during the annual Burning Man celebration in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. An estimated 80,000 people traveled from all over the world to participate in the community of art and “radical self-expression,” making it one of the 10 largest cities in Nevada for one week.
According to the website, Burning Man is based on 10 principles: radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation, and immediacy.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Man goes up in an explosion of flames Saturday night, at Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert, near Gerlach, Nevada. Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Claire Dawn from North West, Minnesota, dances at sunrise, at Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert, in Nevada. Friday, Aug. 30, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The man glows as the sunsets, for the last time, before he is burned, at Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert, near Gerlach, Nevada. The Art Theme this year is Metamorphoses. Friday, Aug. 30, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Maria Zarieskiya from Moscow Russia, dancing at sunrise, at Burning Man, Friday, Aug. 30, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Elena Wang, Beijing China, plays an ancient Chinese instrument called a "Pipa" as the sun rises, at Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert, near Gerlach, Nevada. Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The man glows as the sunsets, for the last time, before he is burned, at Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert, near Gerlach, Nevada. The Art Theme this year is Metamorphoses. Friday, Aug. 30, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Bryan Pope, from Denver Colorado, spins fire before sunrise, at Burning Man, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Burning Man participants sit next to "Electric Plantern" by Lanterns Schmanters, as they wait for the sunrise, at Burning Man, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Svetlani Shirokikh from the south Russia, stands on top of a scientific reproductions of a neanderthal and a saber-toothed tiger, titled "Transmutation" by Arturo Gonzalez, at Burning Man, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Burning Man revealers rest on the ulluminated steps "E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many One" by Kelly Smith Cassidy, at dusk, at Burning Man, Friday, Aug. 30, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Henry Tonoyan, Agnieszka Szefer wait for the sunrise, at Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert, near Gerlach, Nevada. Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The man glows as the sunsets, for the last time, before he is burned, at Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert, near Gerlach, Nevada. The Art Theme this year is Metamorphoses. Friday, Aug. 30, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) "Why People Can't Fly" an art installation by Vassily Klyukin and Zurab Ermilov, at Burning Man, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Monaco sails through the bowing dust at Burning Man, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Hailee Lipscomb, Los Angeles, CA, poses on top of at Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert, near Gerlach, Nevada. Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. Hailee.lipscomb@gmail.com
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Natasha Alexander and her friend swing on the "Swing" by The Swing, by The ManDts at Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert, near Gerlach, Nevada. Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Revelers dance to the music from an art car, at Burning Man, Friday day, Aug. 30, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Fireworks explode around the man before he burns, Saturday night, at Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert, north of Reno, Nevada. The Art Theme this year is Metamorphoses. Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lana Mikheeda, from Russia, dances with a scarf, at Burning Man, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Burning Man revelers climb the 27 floating stones on an art installation called "Stone 27" by Benjamin Langholz, at Burning Man, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Man goes up in an explosion of flames Saturday night, at Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert, near Gerlach, Nevada. Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cynthia Fowler, from Hawaii poses on top of of an art installation called "Centered" by Darrell E. Anstedat, at Burning Man, Friday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Fireworks explode around the man before he burns, Saturday night, at Burning Man, in the Black Rock Desert, north of Reno, Nevada. The Art Theme this year is Metamorphoses. Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sangmi Lee, from Toronto Canada, rests on top of art installation called "Centered" by Darrell E. Anstedat," at Burning Man, Friday, Aug. 30, 2019.
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Rick has been a staff photographer at The Tribune since 1984. Previous to The Tribune, he was photo editor at the Daily Universe Newspaper at BYU and worked at The Sun Advocate in Price, Utah.