1st place
gold star award
Javier sanchez-monge escardo
spain
title
OVERFISHED OCEANS;THE PATH TOWARDS SELF DESTRUCTION
The initial primitive fishing community belongs to Cambodia, representing a sustainable community which focused themselves on survival or at the very most on the trade of their surplus fishing products for other goods.
The following fishing community belongs to Vietnam, and although it was some years ago a traditional one, for the past years the abundance of fishing species rapidly changed it into a huge fishing location, becoming one of the main suppliers of the Vietnamese fishing markets. Their fishing is aimed for profits , and the capture of an extremely rare Banded Eagle Ray is only valued from the perspective of the substantial profits that it will bring.
The sharks packed in boxes belong to a heavy industrialized and organized Taiwanese company, specialized in the fishing of large quantities , regardless of the capture of any possible endangered species.
The last example already reveals the broken man-environmental relationship. A child attempts to eat a piece of crab which his father has captured in far away waters. Although initially this fishing village in the island of Koh Kong in Cambodia had a perfect environmental relationship, the whole village became totally careless about their surroundings. They never provided for any waste management or sewage systems, and they overfished their waters. Today and due to the climate change, this fishing village is slowly sinking below the waters .
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
This long-term project analyzes the human being-environmental relationship by exposing the path that follows the sustainable fishing communities which are capable of making a sustainable living without causing damages to the environment and the opposing path of ambition, which leads from sustainable fishing to commercial fishing, in which the main goal of the primitive fishing communities ,consisting in subsistence and survival, is traded by the ambitious greed for huge profits leading to commercial fishing.The initial primitive fishing community belongs to Cambodia, representing a sustainable community which focused themselves on survival or at the very most on the trade of their surplus fishing products for other goods.
The following fishing community belongs to Vietnam, and although it was some years ago a traditional one, for the past years the abundance of fishing species rapidly changed it into a huge fishing location, becoming one of the main suppliers of the Vietnamese fishing markets. Their fishing is aimed for profits , and the capture of an extremely rare Banded Eagle Ray is only valued from the perspective of the substantial profits that it will bring.
The sharks packed in boxes belong to a heavy industrialized and organized Taiwanese company, specialized in the fishing of large quantities , regardless of the capture of any possible endangered species.
The last example already reveals the broken man-environmental relationship. A child attempts to eat a piece of crab which his father has captured in far away waters. Although initially this fishing village in the island of Koh Kong in Cambodia had a perfect environmental relationship, the whole village became totally careless about their surroundings. They never provided for any waste management or sewage systems, and they overfished their waters. Today and due to the climate change, this fishing village is slowly sinking below the waters .
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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