3rd place
bronze star award
Javier sanchez-monge escardo
spain 
title
THE CHILDREN OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change is not a matter of opinion but rather a fact supported by an international scientific consensus of 97%, being the N.A.S.A one of the many organizations supporting the evidence. Climate change denialism, rather than following any political ideas has to do more with the economic benefits provided by the powerful fuel energy industry.
Although it is already quite late, we can change the path of global warming by switching from the use of fossil fuel energies to the use of clean energies such as solar, wind, tidal or geothermal power.
My struggle for the past years has been to gather irrefutable evidence that proves climate change and specially to transmit a powerful message on the subject by showing the real victims of climate change; our children.
For the past years I have witnessed them as the victims through, typhoons, tsunamis, droughts, floods and deforestation, all of the above having to do with global warming, and I believe that we did not inherit this planet for ourselves, but for the sake of all the future generations who will follow, we did not inherit this planet for a few to benefit, but to preserve it since as for now, the human species has nowhere else to go.
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
On 2017 and against the will of many Americans and citizens from all the world, President Trump, a climate change denialist, decided to back up from the Paris climate change agreement aimed for the future benefit of humanity and led by the U.N.Climate change is not a matter of opinion but rather a fact supported by an international scientific consensus of 97%, being the N.A.S.A one of the many organizations supporting the evidence. Climate change denialism, rather than following any political ideas has to do more with the economic benefits provided by the powerful fuel energy industry.
Although it is already quite late, we can change the path of global warming by switching from the use of fossil fuel energies to the use of clean energies such as solar, wind, tidal or geothermal power.
My struggle for the past years has been to gather irrefutable evidence that proves climate change and specially to transmit a powerful message on the subject by showing the real victims of climate change; our children.
For the past years I have witnessed them as the victims through, typhoons, tsunamis, droughts, floods and deforestation, all of the above having to do with global warming, and I believe that we did not inherit this planet for ourselves, but for the sake of all the future generations who will follow, we did not inherit this planet for a few to benefit, but to preserve it since as for now, the human species has nowhere else to go.
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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