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The Rising Tide Sons

A child sleeps on his house destroyed by coastal erosion on Afidegnigba beach. Sea levels off the coast of West African countries continue to rise and swallow up everything in their path. Thousands of people were forced to leave their homes & migrate inland to avoid certain death.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 12.2019
Date Uploaded: 10.2020
Photo Location: Afidegnigba, Togo
Camera: ILCE-7M3
Copyright: © Antonio Aragon Renuncio