Dhaka: The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) on Wednesday announced Huzzatul Mursalin of Bangladesh as the winner of COP21 Photographic Award-2015.

The Award is a celebration of artistic skill and outstanding photography aimed at drawing attention to and stimulating dialogue around the global challenge of climate change, according to an ICC Bangladesh press release.

The name of the winners for the Award were announced at an exhibition featuring short-listed works held at ICC Global Headquarters in Paris, during the Paris Climate Conference (COP21).

The first prize in the contest’s inaugural year was won by Huzzatul Mursalin for ‘An Unusual Funeral’, a striking depiction of residents of the Bangladeshi Island Kutubdia symbolically paying their respects to dried earth and dead trees.

The judges were impressed by this highly evocative work taken in one of the most vulnerable areas of the world to climate change.

The inaugural ICC Photographic Award invited professional and amateur photographers from all over the world to submit entries reflecting on the theme of #OurClimate: from the causes and impacts of a changing climate, through to our response (past, present or future) to one of the biggest challenges facing humanity.

It attracted over 1,000 submissions from photographers both amateur and professional from over 60 countries.