(CNN) — A child sleeps in the ruins of a home eroded by rising sea levels on a beach in Togo.
“I’m very happy. It’s a huge honor to win such an important prize,” Aragón told CNN. “Especially one that’s related to the environment, which is a topic I’ve been working on for several years and which I’m very worried about.”
“It was strange that every time I passed through the capital of Togo, Lomé, in the beach zone and towards the airport, I noticed each year that the road was closer to the water,” he said. “I realized that it was a serious problem… and I think it’s a story very few people know about, and very few people have told.”
Meanwhile, Kenya’s Kevin Ochieng Onyango won in the “Climate Action” category for his chilling depiction of the future of climate change, showing a child breathing in oxygen from a plant while a sandstorm brews in the background.
The winning images are being shown alongside a selection of other photos at a COP26 exhibition. The climate summit began on October 31 and will end on November 12.
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