History of Burning Man - Done!

As regular Burn.Life readers know, I've been working on a picture-heavy history of Burning Man, with entries for all thirty years. Just finished 2011-2015, bringing it up to date and (thankfully) completing the project until the next Burn.

It's been quite illuminating for me to see how the event has changed over the years, and doing this project has made me have little patience with people who say things like, "Burning Man is ruined - it's changed so much since I started going in 1998." 

Yeah? Well that's exactly what some people who were there in the early days were saying by '98. It's impossible to spend time studying the history of the event without recognizing that change has been a constant with it.  Hope you enjoy!

Photos in collage by Unknown, Stewart Harvey, Michael Mikel, Brad Templeton, Mark Gunderson, Matt Mihály, Julia Wolf, and John Chandler.

​1986-1990: The Early Days

​1991-1996: Hypergrowth

​1997-2000: Maturation

2001-2010: Graceful Aging

​2011-2015: Age of Scarcity