honorable mention
Javier sanchez-monge escardo spain
title
ASIAN SMOKERS;A PORTRAIT STUDY
After the strong decay of the use of tobacco on behalf of the Western world, many of the big companies decided to move to some Asian countries to compensate for their loss. Although the use of tobacco has been going on for centuries in many Asian countries by using traditional pipes and self grown tobacco used to make leaf cigarettes, the heavy use of tobacco propaganda has benefited the Western companies.
At the present, the hopes of the World Health Organization are that Asia will follow the Western trend to diminish or suppress the use of tobacco.
His works have been published on El País, La Vanguardia, El Confidencial, El Día, El Diario de Navarra, and about climate change through the Spanish agency Agencia EFE. Regularly he publishes on Periodistas en Español, addressed to Spanish speaking audiences.
More recently Javier Sánchez-Monge Escardó has been awarded the IPA Spanish Edition title of Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year (2017), Nominee by the LUCIE FOUNDATION for his works on climate change among four other international candidates to become the Deeper Perspective Photographer of the year 2017 and his works on Climate change were shown at the Dale Carnegie Hall in New York on October 2017.
Some of his prints have been exhibited at international photo Exhibits on behalf of the LUCIE FOUNDATION ( At the Mayors Summit , for the UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE 2015 -Addressing Climate Change-) or also on behalf of the Lucie Foundation on the MOPLA (Month of Photography Los Angeles). As well on behalf of the ALFRED FRIED AWARDS at the UNESCO building in Paris, and throughout different countries, such as in 2016, when travelling as part of the “Best of the Show” travelling photo exhibit organized by the International Photography Awards (IPA).
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entry description
All the people portrayed in this series, although belonging to different ways of life, culture and social status, share three conditions which for a moment could unite them in one only kind; 1) They all smoke 2) They all expel smoke 3) They are all Asian and the series represents a portrait study combining the use of smoke with very expressive expressions and faces, which meet the observer's eyes in a unique way, making him/her feel in the need to know more about the character portrayed in the series; There is in fact a story behind each character which makes adds up to their interesting personality: the first one belongs to a fisherman's wife, the second to a buffalo seller, the third to a Chinese trapper, the fourth to a retired Burmese army boxer and the third to a Yi Shaman, from the North of Yunnan (China). It was difficult to achieve this sense of relaxing intimacy with the characters, and that was done after some long talks ,sometimes with the help of an interpreter.After the strong decay of the use of tobacco on behalf of the Western world, many of the big companies decided to move to some Asian countries to compensate for their loss. Although the use of tobacco has been going on for centuries in many Asian countries by using traditional pipes and self grown tobacco used to make leaf cigarettes, the heavy use of tobacco propaganda has benefited the Western companies.
At the present, the hopes of the World Health Organization are that Asia will follow the Western trend to diminish or suppress the use of tobacco.
about the photographer
avier Sánchez-Monge Escardó is a Spanish photographer and philosopher born in 1965 in Madrid who has travelled and lived throughout different countries in an effort to document both humanitarian and environmental causes, specially dedicating himself in the past two years to the issue of climate change and to the man-made era of the anthropocene, among other issues of humanitarian nature, such as the Rohingya refugees.His works have been published on El País, La Vanguardia, El Confidencial, El Día, El Diario de Navarra, and about climate change through the Spanish agency Agencia EFE. Regularly he publishes on Periodistas en Español, addressed to Spanish speaking audiences.
More recently Javier Sánchez-Monge Escardó has been awarded the IPA Spanish Edition title of Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year (2017), Nominee by the LUCIE FOUNDATION for his works on climate change among four other international candidates to become the Deeper Perspective Photographer of the year 2017 and his works on Climate change were shown at the Dale Carnegie Hall in New York on October 2017.
Some of his prints have been exhibited at international photo Exhibits on behalf of the LUCIE FOUNDATION ( At the Mayors Summit , for the UNITED NATIONS CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE 2015 -Addressing Climate Change-) or also on behalf of the Lucie Foundation on the MOPLA (Month of Photography Los Angeles). As well on behalf of the ALFRED FRIED AWARDS at the UNESCO building in Paris, and throughout different countries, such as in 2016, when travelling as part of the “Best of the Show” travelling photo exhibit organized by the International Photography Awards (IPA).
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