Like many photographers, András Zoltai has spent much time photographing outside of his home country. He has worked on projects in Armenia, Crimea, New York, the Balkans and India.

It was in India where Zoltai, while working on an environmental story about the Brahmaputra River that he realized he should, in fact, also be looking at environmental issues in is home country of Hungary.

Zoltai’s project is ongoing, but he says he wants to “explore the fragile relationship between humans and water at a more metaphorical level through my human encounters and memories, but still focusing on how climate change and human negligence affect our most precious resource—WATER and the QUALITY OF LIFE that surrounds it.”

Interestingly enough, Zoltai grew up near Hungary’s second biggest river, the Tisza. He told In Sight:

“My entire childhood was inevitably shaped by the presence of the river and the thermal springs around my hometown, Szentes. This region was one of the most rich and vivid livelihoods in Hungary before the river regulations took place in the 19th century. The developments around water ecosystem, and the threats of recent climate issues has been constantly impacting the environment, causing huge droughts, extreme weather events and limiting our direct access to living waters.”

Zoltai’s images are poetic encounters with Hungarians and climate changes affect on them. He told In Sight, “My main motivation is to photograph the current relationship between human and water, reveal the country’s critical points, concentrate on countryside people whole livelhihood and place of residence also heavily depend on the presence of water.”

Today on In Sight we are pleased to show the beginnings of Zoltai’s project, “Blue Memoir.”

You can see more of Zoltai’s work on his website, here.