2006

Diamond Matters has been awarded with the second prize in the category "Contemporary Issues: stories", at the World Press Photo competition.

The pictures of Kadir van Lohuizen, assembled in the exhibition Diamond Matters, follow the route of a diamond; from Africa via India to the West. They show the dangerous alluvial mining in Sierra Leona, the poor working conditions of the diamond cutters in Surat, the jewish traders in Antwerp and finally the rich customers in cities like New York and Amsterdam.