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82: Photographing Burning Man
Season 3 · Episode 82

82: Photographing Burning Man

Just back from my first Burn--after 30 years of consciously choosing not to go --I thought this would be a photographic paradise, but i was schooled.

Everyday Photography, Every Day

September 8, 201930m 8s

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Show Notes

There's something about Burning Man... maybe its ephemerality (like a sand mandala) that is created with love and then wiped away without a trace, that not only feels like an interesting metaphor for all living, but how it highlights the nature of photography to grasp at the transient and make it permanent. Anyway, its a dusty nightmare that is a photographic dream. My experience:

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