Burning Man 2019 photos by Duncan Rawlinson

Here are my Burning Man 2019 Photos!
There are roughly a quadrillion photos on this page. Some images might be NSFW. Please be patient while this page loads. All of my Burning Man images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial license. If you share them you must attribute the photographs to me by name and link to Duncan.co You cannot sell my photographs, make prints of them, or make money from them in any way whatsoever. That includes advertising on a website.

Rough Shape
Raising two small children is taking a toll on me. My kids are now 2 and 4 years old and I’m pretty much exhausted all the time and I’ve gained quite a bit of weight. So I started the 2019 Burn mentally fried, physically exhausted, and totally out of shape. I also injured myself just before the burn. I reached back behind the passenger seat of my car to lift a very heavy camera bag (duh!) and destroyed my forearm. Something pulled or tore in my right forearm and it hasn’t been the same since. Fun! When I arrived on playa after driving over 2000 miles in an RV I was in pretty rough shape. So bear with me.

Wifi is Stupid
I had the brilliant idea of running a Wifi network for my camp this year. In previous burns I had wasted lots of time seeking connectivity to send an ALL OK message back and forth to my family home. So I did what you do, I built a bigass wifi network. I then opened the network to everyone in the spirit of radical inclusion. No password or captive portal or anything. (Just throttled speed) The network performed well thanks to the work of the Burning Man IT team and my friend Sarge. That said, it was shocking to see how quickly people went from being thrilled to find out they have connectivity to complaining about it. The network would sometimes be down early in the morning when I wasn’t even in camp (batteries would run down at night) and folks would bug me about it upon my return. The last thing I wanted to do was deal with tech support when all I wanted was rest. At peak there were 131 devices connected to my network at any one time. The most essential use of the network (other than me talking to my family) was a person who used the network to call Switzerland. This person’s mother had recently gone into hospital and had been diagnosed with Cancer. Some people were people streaming Netflix despite me asking them not to abuse the network. They then wondered why they got blocked. You give an inch…

Tried My Best
What follows is the best I could do given the state of my mind and body. I hope it’s enough. I worked for the entire burn so the Burning Man community could enjoy these images.

Wait HALP!
I tend to make lots of mistakes here with captions and I would be really appreciate any comments (very bottom of page) or direct emails telling me how about it. For example you could tell me the names of various unknown pieces or art. Or just how I’m doing it wrong. I will then update this post to reflect your comment or email. Just copy the link to the photo or email the photo to me so I’ll know which photo you’re talking about.

More Useless Information:
The images below are in reverse chronological order starting with the man burn and ending with the builds. This was first published October 18th, 2019. These images are also on Flickr and Photo.Duncan.co.

Music
Here is a Burning Man 2019 playlist I made for you to enjoy while browsing these images.

Reddit Thread
You can chime in on reddit as well if that’s more your style.

Updates

  1. Added Reddit thread and updated a bunch of captions.
  2. Fixed a whole bunch of captions and typos via le Reddit.
  3. Added a link to Burning Man 2019 Flickr gallery.
  4. Reversed order of photos and fixed a few captions.

Click on any photo to see it at full resolution.

Click on any photo to see it at full resolution and enjoy!


This panorama is so massive it broke everything on my website and server so I had to stick it down here. If you click the photo it will load a gigantic ~350 Megabyte image that might crash your device… It’s Panorama 1/3 + 2/3 + 3/3 from above combined into one. It was shot at roughly 510 and D. Cannot remember the name of the camp for the life of me. This image is about 520 Megapixels or 64461X8062 pixels.

Where’s The Temple Burn?
Nothing against all you fine temple builders (some of my campmates) but I had to leave the burn right after the man burn to rush home to take my daughter to her first day of school.

Wait HALP!
I tend to make lots of mistakes here with captions and I would be really appreciate any comments (very bottom of page) or direct emails telling me how about it. For example you could tell me the names of various unknown pieces or art. Or just how I’m doing it wrong. I will then update this post to reflect your comment or email. Just copy the link to the photo or email the photo to me so I’ll know which photo you’re talking about.

Thank You Dorothy
Thank you Dorothy for allowing me to come out to the burn yet again. Thank you for holding down the fort so the community could have these images. I love you so much!

More Thank Yous
Thank you to: Sarge (master of networks), Vaike, Marian, Will Roger, Crimson Rose (for taking pity on me for being late to a meeting because I was in the sky), Scott London, Danee Hazama, Purple Haze, Jeremy G, Jeremy, Jazzy, Jamen, Drew, Harold, Tracey, the Epiphany & Co crew, and all of Awesomesauce.

Shout Outs
Shout out to the build teams, the artists, the volunteers, ORG Staff, the Medical support, DPW, Fire Conclave, Media Mecca, and on and on. I could go on forever. I’m just grateful and humbled by all of the work you’ve done and continue to do to make this such a vibrant community.

Thank you for including me.

Keep Burning Man weird and potentially fatal!

See you next year.

Next year was better.

)'(

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Comments

27 responses to “Burning Man 2019 Photos”

  1. Sam Avatar
    Sam

    Thanks for this. These are amazing!

  2. Tammy Avatar
    Tammy

    Wonderful images!

  3. jerome Avatar
    jerome

    your pictures are out of this world. thank you merci!

    1. Duncan Rawlinson Avatar

      vous êtes les bienvenus!

  4. Annelise Avatar
    Annelise

    The unnamed piece with the chair is The Bard’s Branch :-)

    This is my favorite album of the year. I’m totally sending this to my old art school friends who are on the fence about it.

    1. Duncan Rawlinson Avatar

      Thanks for the help here. I updated the caption.

  5. Sister Wanda Avatar
    Sister Wanda

    Beautiful!!!

    1. Duncan Rawlinson Avatar

      Thanks so much Cait! I have updated the captions.

  6. Kara Avatar
    Kara

    These are amazing, as are you. Thanks for sharing all your photos and I’m hoping you’re feeling better too.

    1. Duncan Rawlinson Avatar

      Thanks! <3 I’m feeling mostly better. Sorry for complaining heh.

  7. richard hurn Avatar
    richard hurn

    exquisite gift lovingly curated. thank you for this window into the wunnerful celebration of what’s humanly possible and the scope of imagination

    1. Duncan Rawlinson Avatar

      People are amazing and Burners in particular are a very special bunch.

  8. PGS Avatar
    PGS

    Truly wonderful. Thank you so much. I didn’t take any photos. There were so many things I loved and you captured so many of them. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

    1. Duncan Rawlinson Avatar

      It was my pleasure. It was also quite painful heh.

  9. Carol Avatar
    Carol

    These are amazing, thank you. The beautiful old fashioned car toward the end with the amazing Merrilee on it is called the Wrecker.

    1. Duncan Rawlinson Avatar

      Hi Carol, Thanks for the heads up. I have updated the caption.

  10. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    Not a huge BM fan, but the photography here is amazing! You have a great eye.

    1. Duncan Rawlinson Avatar

      Me neither. Burning Man sucks dont’ go. :P

  11. Ryan Johnson Avatar

    Absolutely amazing. Thanks for allowing me to return for a few minutes in the middle of a work-week. I miss it already. Wonderful pictures, and thanks for including the full-res images so I could really discover the details. See you next year!
    -Lazer

    1. Duncan Rawlinson Avatar

      Hi Ryan. I’m glad you enjoyed the images. See ya next year!

  12. Rike Avatar
    Rike

    Beautifully captured. Thanks you for letting me relive my first burn through your photographs!

  13. Duncan Rawlinson Avatar

    If anyone is looking for a comment they posted before this I might have deleted it by mistake. My server is being deluged by comment spam. Sorry!

  14. Duncan Rawlinson Avatar

    Just updated my site and reversed the order of these images. (it’s now in reverse chronological)