ASIAN SMOKERS;A PORTRAIT STUDY

• Photographer
  JAVIER SANCHEZ-MONGE ESCARDO, Spain
• Studio
  AGE FOTOSTOCK INTERNATIONAL/ PERIODISTAS EN ESPANOL

ASIAN SMOKERS; A PORTRAIT STUDY
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.
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.

• Awards
  My name is Javier Sanchez-Monge Escardo .I was born in Madrid in 1965.Education: Degree in International business management at the Schiller International University Germany (Heidleberg), 3 years of Biology studies at the University of Alcala de Henares and a degree in Philosophy, followed by a PHD still to be finished. Several advanced photography courses, video and editing. Can speak and write in different languages. Constantly I have been travelling around the world, photographing and living in foreign cultures. AWARDS 2014 FIRST PLACE (GOLD) People’s Choice Awards 2014, Press Feature Story at the Prix de Paris Awards (PX3 2014) FIRST PLACE (GOLD)) /General News at the Prix de Paris Awards (PX32014) FIRST PLACE (GOLD) People’s Choice Awards 2014 /Nature Environmental at the THIRD PLACE (BRONZE) Press Feature Story at the Prix de Paris Awards 2014 THREE HONORABLE MENTIONS Prix de Paris Awards (PX3 2014) 4 HONORABLE MENTIONS at the ND Awards (2014).THREE HONORABLE MENTIONS at the International Photography Awards (IPA 2014). 2015 TWO HONORABLE MENTIONS MONOCHROME AWARDS 2014, TWO HONORABLE MENTIONS IPA one shot awards 2015 Works exhibited during the Month of Photography, Los Angeles by the LUCIE FOUNDATION. SEVEN HONORABLE MENTIONS IPA 2015, FOUR HONORABLE MENTIONS Prix de Paris White Awards 2015.SIX HONORABLE MENTIONS Prix de Paris Awards annual competition 2015 TWO HONORABLE MENTIONS ND AWARDS 2015 IPA 2015 SECOND PLACE Award Category Event Culture and traditions. IPA THIRD PLACE AWARD Awards Category Portraiture, Children. PRIX DE PARIS 2015 SILVER MEDAL Environmental Press category. PRIX DE PARIS 2015 BRONZE MEDAL Portraits category. FIRST PLACE ND AWARDS 2015 (GOLDEN STAR AWARD) People. FIRST PLACE ND AWARDS 2015 (GOLDEN STAR AWARD) Editorial, Environmental. FINALIST WITH HONORABLE MENTION at the SIENA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS storyboard category, FINALIST NOMINEE at the FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS (FAPA 2015) portraits category, FINALIST NOMINEE at the FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS (FAPA 2015) Photojournalism category. 3HONORABLE MENTIONS MONOCHROME AWARDS 2015