The Lamplighters ready to go to work.
They will hang the lanterns to the polls around Black Rock City in a daily ceremony.
Photo taken at the Burning Man 2005 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).
The Lamplighters, at the Burning Man festival.
The Lamplighters are in charge of the petrol lamps that are hanged each night to the lamp poles around the esplanade, and along the main avenues on the playa (3:00, 9:00 and on the main axis from Center Camp to the Man and then to the Temple.
For more info about the Lamplighters, and how to participate and join this camp, go to www.burningman.com/participate/lamplighter.html .
For information about the Burning Man Festival and to see my photos from other years, click here.
Burning Man Festival
Photos per year: 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1999, 1998.
Burning Man is yearly gathering of about 70,000 people, many from the San Francisco Bay Area, celebrating love, life, passion and art during one week in a desolated desert in Nevada.
The event takes place each last week of august in an immense dry lakebed called Black Rock Desert. A temporary city is built where about everything is permitted except violence, money and commerce.
The culmination of the event is the burning of a large human-shape figure in a giant bonfire, hence the name (Burning Man). The city disappears completely at the end of the week, leaving no trace.
If this sounds interesting, check out the official Burning Man website at www.burningman.org.
Burning Man 2005 photos by Tristan Savatier.
For information on this festival and to see my photos from other years, click here.
