As the Burning Man annual festival now approaches critical mass after establishing in 1986; the State of Nevada are increasingly pushing higher taxes and enforced control onto the non-profit organisation which is placing greater restrictions on the freedom of those that attend yearly.
The organisers feel that they may need to relocate onto private land away from the State of Nevada's state owned Black Rock Desert in order to maintain the ethics of what the festival was built on - decommodification, radical self reliance and radical self expression.
These images explore the festival's size and scale.