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Renegade photographer Philip Volkers travels the world with his camera, achieving total immersion in both modern and ancient festivals. His passion is the documentation of spiritual, hedonistic gatherings, and exploring the meaning behind them with his work. Dust to Dawn documents the visual adventures of Volkers at Nevada's notorious festival, Burning Man. Every year 75,000 people descend on a blisteringly hot alkaline lake bed in Nevada, to let loose and make art.

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Philip Volkers was born in 1980 and grew up in the Wiltshire countryside. He studied Indian Philosophy and Shamanic Studies at SOAS, a highly influential experience for Philip that has defined much of his recent work. With a strong focus on nature and freedom of expression Philip finds inspiration through travel. Recent adventures have led him to explore human gatherings; spiritual, hedonistic and both. Philip seeks to capture moments of heightened consciousness and unity within gatherings, and in doing so to encourage the viewer's inquisitiveness to be stimulated by his images. His aim is to produce imagery that is stand-alone in its impact. Philip is a Visonary photographer for Olympus. His work includes reportage, portraits and extreme sports and he exhibits across the board in galleries worldwide. His clients include: Apple, The BBC, Clarence House, De Beers, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, The Independent, Lisson Gallery, Mercury Records, L'Officiel, Olympus, Pebble, Quintessentially, Universal Records and Vogue UK. Jamie Whealis an expert on peak performance and leadership, specializing in the neuroscience and application of Flow states. He has advised everyone from the U.S. Naval War College and Special Operations Command, the athletes of RedBull, and the owners of NFL, NBA, MLB and Premier League teams, to the executives of Google, Deloitte Cisco and Young Presidents' Organization. He studied historical anthropology under MacArthur Fellow Patricia Nelson Limerick, specializing in utopian social movements and his work has appeared in anthologies and peer-reviewed academic journals.

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