3rd place
bronze star award
Javier sanchez-monge escardo
spain
title
IN THE NAME OF LOVE
The following image series intends to depict how the love and understanding of some children can play an essential role into making severely traumatized acid survivors believe and reintegrate into life again.
Prematurely, the children of acid victims will gain some fast insight into the world they live in, and will become extremely protective of their beloved. If blinded, they will become their eyes, if afraid they will give them reassurance, if sad or depressed they will give them love and understanding. As well, when a modern society in which physical beauty plays such an essential role discriminates or stigmatizes acid victims because of the way they look like, their children will learn to give them love for who they are.
Very often, the children of acid survivors represent some of the social values which will be lost as soon as they grow up into a modern society were the established social values will greatly differ from theirs.
Acid attacks remain one of the cruelest assaults a human being can inflict upon another and are aimed to disfigure, maim, torture or kill the victims. The consequences can range from a permanent physical and psychological damage to a social stigmatization and discrimination of the victim as a result of a severe body disfigurement.
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
Love is perhaps the only and most beautiful emotion present in the human beings which has the power to counteract and heal the consequences of hate and specially when an acid attack is a consequence of it.The following image series intends to depict how the love and understanding of some children can play an essential role into making severely traumatized acid survivors believe and reintegrate into life again.
Prematurely, the children of acid victims will gain some fast insight into the world they live in, and will become extremely protective of their beloved. If blinded, they will become their eyes, if afraid they will give them reassurance, if sad or depressed they will give them love and understanding. As well, when a modern society in which physical beauty plays such an essential role discriminates or stigmatizes acid victims because of the way they look like, their children will learn to give them love for who they are.
Very often, the children of acid survivors represent some of the social values which will be lost as soon as they grow up into a modern society were the established social values will greatly differ from theirs.
Acid attacks remain one of the cruelest assaults a human being can inflict upon another and are aimed to disfigure, maim, torture or kill the victims. The consequences can range from a permanent physical and psychological damage to a social stigmatization and discrimination of the victim as a result of a severe body disfigurement.
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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