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Carolina’s questions about her mother’s earrings lead into the diamond’s journey from mine to boutique.
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Armin Greder - Author
This is a visually powerful book about how an apparently luxurious purchase can be connected to exploitation and inequality. Its sparse words place substantial interpretive weight on sombre, confronting charcoal images and the reader’s response.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a visually powerful book about how an apparently luxurious purchase can be connected to exploitation and inequality. Its sparse words place substantial interpretive weight on sombre, confronting charcoal images and the reader’s response.
Carolina’s questions about her mother’s earrings lead into the diamond’s journey from mine to boutique.
The wordless sequence depicts miners extracting diamonds while being brutalised, followed by movement through corrupt intermediaries.
Amina works in a wealthy home and does not own diamonds, although the child associates diamonds with Africa and asks about her.
The central concern is not only mining but the wider chain of exchange, including armed groups, middlemen, wealthy purchasers and domestic service.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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