Victor Habchy1 is a French photographer and director. He was lucky enough to get a ticket to Burning Man2, an annual festival in the middle of the desert3 of Nevada’s4 Black Rock Desert in the US. He describes the event as life-changing, spending a full week without electricity, sleeping in a tent in the desert heat and dealing with dust storms.
In the words of the photographer
I understood you can’t really get prepared to this simply because you just don’t know it. Then I figured out they were actually no preparation you should follow; all you need is to let it go.
Because never in my life have I experienced more love, more freedom and more self-expression. This place gathers everything left from human dreams and by every individual means, we could work together to build up a better world.
You know what the very first message you hear when it’s your first time at the Burning Man?
“Welcome home”
Photos
2 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada3 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada4 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada5 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada6 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada7 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada8 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada9 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada10 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada11 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada12 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada13 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada14 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada15 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada16 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada17 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada18 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada19 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada20 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada21 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada22 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada23 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada24 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada25 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada26 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada27 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada28 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada29 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada30 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada31 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada32 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada33 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada34 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada35 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada36 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada37 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada38 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada39 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada40 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada41 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada42 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada43 Victor Habchy – Burning Man, Nevada
All images by Victor Habchy unless otherwise noted.