Flood Me, I'll be Here

During my journey to India I met Brahmaputra, the son of God, the last great free–flowing river with a spirit and reverence. In the eternal view of his floodplains, in the relentless flow of his stream, and in the people who respect and honour him, I was witness to a childhood memory I never got to know. All the missing elements from my childhood has been completed by the experiences I collected on the bank of this mighty river. ‘Flood me, I’ll be Here’ is an exploration of my encounter with a sensitive, harmonious, yet defenseless relationship of people with nature and water on the riverine island of Majuli. My motivation is to photograph the issues of isolation in physical, social, and spiritual sense, and focusing on how people react to the river and interact with the ever-changing environment.

In Blue Memoir, I explore the contradiction of how water, a source of life, has become a force of both absence and excess in Hungary. I trace an invisible but relentless devastation—one not marked by a singular, cataclysmic event but by a slow unravelling. Our fading connection to water is a storm we do not see, yet its impact is profound, reshaping how we live, think, and belong. Hungary has long been known for its abundant, rich water resources, once a force of balance, shaping the land and sustaining life in the Carpathian Basin. However, the country has faced its driest period, with nearly half the usual rainfall absent. Droughts deepen, rivers shrink, and natural ecosystems suffer—yet, paradoxically, sudden storms and violent floods threaten us simultaneously. If these climate trends continue, a land of abundance will teter on the edge of desertification.