week six

While helping a friend make a collage for a class, I came across this picture. The caption (not seen here) reads "Uniformed workers spend 10hr days polishing diamonds at the Blue Star plant in Surat....Indian diamond workers have perfected the art of cutting tiny stones. Bought for $90, more than a hundred of these gems - each with 58 facets - can barely frost a strawberry."

The picture is from a National Geographic magazine, under the article "Diamonds; the Real Story." The article talked about the wars in Africa, the trade markets in India and the companies that will by these 'conflict' diamonds (the ones that are sold and bought to fund war).

These small stones have torn countries apart, but the demand keeps growing. However diamonds are not rare, they are just made up to be so the price will go up. I thought his picture was interesting. The colors are bright, it's simple, and features shiny objects. (I guess it was the article that made the pictures interesting, but I only could find a small portion of it).