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Black Rock City

2019 — Metamorphoses

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About

Photographer / Creative Director

Galen Oakes

Westport, California → Los Angeles
11consecutive years
2009—2019
20+years across
image + direction
42+verified editorial
outlets

Raised in Westport on California’s Mendocino Coast, Galen Oakes picked up a camera at 16. His practice spans artist portraiture, editorial covers, documentary work and commercial creative direction.

From 2009 through 2019, he photographed every annual gathering in Black Rock City—eleven consecutive Burns, without a skipped year. Decade in the Dust is his long-form record of the monumental and the intimate inside a city built to disappear.

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108 photographs

2014—2019