honorable mention
Javier sanchez-monge escardo spain
title
PLASTIC WORLD
Every year enough plastic is thrown to circle the earth four times, most of which is carried away by the ocean tides. Plastic pollution involves the accumulation of plastic products in the environment that adversely affect wildlife, wildlife habitat, or humans.
The plastics floating into the ocean contribute to the formation of ocean garbage patches which can measure more than 700,000 square km and constitute huge islands of waste. As these garbage patches circulate for long periods of time, they can cause serious health hazards to the human being and the marine ecosystems.
The United Nations Environment Program estimated in 2006 that every square mile of ocean hosts 46,000 pieces of floating plastic and estimated the financial damage to marine ecosystems at US 13 billion each year. In the year 2016 countries like Senegal or Gambia have banned the use of plastic bags and in countries like Vietnam even the fishermen recycle the use of plastic bags.
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
The following series belongs to a long-term project based on the devastating environmental effects related to the use of plastics.Every year enough plastic is thrown to circle the earth four times, most of which is carried away by the ocean tides. Plastic pollution involves the accumulation of plastic products in the environment that adversely affect wildlife, wildlife habitat, or humans.
The plastics floating into the ocean contribute to the formation of ocean garbage patches which can measure more than 700,000 square km and constitute huge islands of waste. As these garbage patches circulate for long periods of time, they can cause serious health hazards to the human being and the marine ecosystems.
The United Nations Environment Program estimated in 2006 that every square mile of ocean hosts 46,000 pieces of floating plastic and estimated the financial damage to marine ecosystems at US 13 billion each year. In the year 2016 countries like Senegal or Gambia have banned the use of plastic bags and in countries like Vietnam even the fishermen recycle the use of plastic bags.
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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