Portrait nominee

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 and the series represents a portrait study combining the use of smoke with very expressive expressions and faces, which meet the observer's eyes in a unique way, making him/her feel in the need to know more about the character portrayed in the series; There is in fact a story behind each character which makes adds up to their interesting personality: the first one belongs to a fisherman's wife, the second to a buffalo seller, the third to a Chinese trapper, the fourth to a retired Burmese army boxer and the third to a Yi Shaman, from the North of Yunnan (China). It was difficult to achieve this sense of relaxing intimacy with the characters, and that was done after some long talks ,sometimes with the help of an interpreter.

Javier Sanchez-Monge Escardo

2014
3 GOLD MEDALS PRIX DE PARIS AND 1 BRONZE
(BRONZE) Press Feature Story at the Prix de Paris Awards 2014 and 3 honorable mentions.
4 HONORABLE MENTIONS ND Awards (2014).3 HONORABLE MENTIONS (IPA 2014).
2015
3 HONORABLE MENTIONS Monochrome Awards 2015, 3 HONORABLE MENTIONS IPA one shot awards 2015 Works exhibited during the Month of Photography, Los Angeles by the LUCIE FOUNDATION. 7 IPA 2015, 4 HONORABLE MENTIONS Prix de Paris White Awards 2015.6 HONORABLE MENTIONS Prix de Paris Awards annual competition 2015 2 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.
GOLD ND AWARDS 2015 People.
GOLD ND AWARDS 2015 Editorial, Environmental.
HONORABLE MENTION SIPA 2015,FINALIST SIPA 2016, 3 TIMES FINALIST NOMINEE FAPA ,GOLD IPOTY AWARDS.
2016 IPA WINNER SECOND DEEPER PERSPECTIVE
2016 IPA WINNER THIRD DEEPER PERSPECTIVE
2016 IPA WINNER SECOND EDITORIAL, OTHER.
2016 IPA PHILIPPINES WINNER GOLD
2016 IPA PHILIPPINES WINNER SILVER
2016 IPA PHILIPPINES WINNER BRONZE
2016 IPA PHILIPPINES WINNER BRONZE
2016 1 GOLD, 2 BRONZE TOKYO AWARDS (TIFA)3 HM