Rock to Ring: Diamonds in Siberia

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

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5. Top of the ladder are people like Valeriya, the 'Madonna of Moscow'. Russia's biggest pop star is the face of Smolensk Kristall diamonds, the major Russian polished diamonds manufacturer which sources its diamonds from Alrosa. Here she takes a break from recording one of her music videos in Moscow.

4. The diamond mining industry is critical to Yakutia's economy - and I found this picture of an incomplete ladder on the side of a building rather symbolic. There's a mixture of hope and torment: for there appears to be no way of getting on to the first rung of the ladder. Mirny's buildings are often bright and colourful - perhaps in a bid to lift morale in a place of total isolation and freezing temperatures.

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Rock to Ring: Diamonds in Siberia

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