Black Gold Hotel - Michele Palazzi
Mongolia -
The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management awarded Italian photographer Michele Palazzi, the Environmental Photographer of the Year Award, 2013, at a private ceremony at the Royal Geographical Society in London.
In the last decade the economy of Mongolia has grown at an unprecedented rate, with GDP expanding by more than 10% per year. All this mostly depends on the mining industry: attracted by the large deposits of copper, gold and most of all coal, all of the industry’s global giants have invested and invest in this small country of Central Asia.
Mongolia, Gobi, Omongovi, 2012 Hovorerden is playing with his sister during the sand storm.
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