Balazs Gardi

Balazs Gardi is a Hungarian-born, American-based photographer.[1][2] In 2008, Gardi received two 1st Prizes in the World Press Photo Awards and won the Photojournalism prize in the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents for his work from Afghanistan.[3][4]

Balazs Gardi
Balázs Gárdi
Born
Budapest, Hungary
Alma materMÚOSZ Journalism School
Websitebalazsgardi.com

Education

Gardi first studied photography under József Hefelle at the Budapesti Komplex SZC Kézművesipari vocational high school before attending the MÚOSZ Journalism School in Budapest[5] and later the University of Wales, Cardiff.[6]

Photography career

Gardi started working as a photographer for the daily newspaper Népszabadság around 2000.[7] In the mid-2000s, he spent two years documenting the Roma (Gypsy) minorities, photographing the often impoverished and discriminated peoples throughout a dozen Eastern European countries.[8] His photographs have appeared publications including Harper's Magazine,[9] National Geographic,[10] The New York Times,[11][12] Wired,[13] Time,[14] Outside,[15] The Atlantic,[16] Newsweek,[17][18] and The Guardian.[19]

His series titled "Thirst," depicts human civilization in water stressed areas.[20] The Thirst series is part of Facing Water Crisis, Gardi's project documenting the impact of human population growth on water scarcity.[20][6][21]

In 2010 and 2011, he documented the First Battalion, Eighth Marines, throughout their deployment in southern Afghanistan's war-torn deserts, in collaboration with Basetrack Live.[22][23] In Afghanistan, Gardi also experimented with using an iPhone as his primary camera, publishing a photo essay in Foreign Policy titled "The War in Hipstamatic".[23][24]

In 2011, Gardi travelled to rural KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa to document the communities who live there.[25] His work there was supported by a Magnum Foundation Fund grant.[25]

In 2021, Gardi photographed the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol on assignment for The New Yorker.[26] Gardi's photographs accompanied an article titled "The Storm" by Luke Mogelson in the print edition of the January 25, 2021, issue.[26]

Awards

References
  1. "Balazs Gardi". Annenberg Space for Photography. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  2. "Four Photographers To Follow on Instagram This Memorial Day Weekend". Popular Photography. 28 May 2016. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  3. "2008 Balazs Gardi GNS1-AL". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  4. "Balazs Gardi - 2018 Sony Professional Grant". World Photography Organisation. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  5. "Exkluzív interjú Gárdi Balázs fotográfussal" [Exclusive Interview with Photographer Balázs Gárdi]. Fotó Art Magazin (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  6. "The Basetrack Project". The Graffiti of War Project. Archived from the original on 2011-09-08. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  7. "Gárdi Balázs". www.tedxdanubia.com (in Hungarian). Archived from the original on 2016-05-30. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  8. Gardi, Balazs. "The Roma People by Balazs Gardi - The Digital Journalist (November 2006)". digitaljournalist.org. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  9. Gardi, Balazs (2017-09-12). "[Postcard] | Volunteer Army, by Balazs Gardi". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  10. "See Powerful Pictures of How We're Using and Misusing Water". National Geographic News. 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  11. "U.S. - Image - NYTimes.com". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  12. Kamber, Michael (2010-12-21). "Covering Marines at War, Through Facebook". Lens Blog. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  13. "Virginia's Election on Tuesday Will Test the Power of Silicon Valley's New Activists". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  14. "Balazs Gardi". Time. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  15. Motlagh, Jason (2017-11-01). "It's Like the NFL. But with Horses and a Headless Calf". Outside Online. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  16. Stern, Jacob. "Photos of California's Suffocating Smoke". The Atlantic. ISSN 1072-7825. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  17. EST, Teddy Cutler On 2/28/16 at 2:02 AM (2016-02-28). "Watch death-defying footage from the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series". Newsweek. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  18. "AI-AP Slideshow". www.ai-ap.com. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  19. Ahmad, Akintunde (22 October 2020). "Black or blue: the complex double-lives of Oakland's Black police officers". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  20. Gardi, Balazs. "The Waters Beneath". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  21. "In the Pic with Balazs Gardi & Teru Kuwayama – Two Sides of the Story". Frontline Club. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  22. "Balazs Gardi in Afghanistan, video portraits of First Battalion, Eighth Marines". Streaming Museum. 2014-10-03. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  23. "War photography? Isn't there an app for that?". the Guardian. 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  24. Gardi, Balazs. "The War in Hipstamatic". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  25. "Balazs Gardi | Cresi". Magnum Foundation. Archived from the original on 2020-05-26. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  26. Mogelson, Luke (15 January 2021). "Among the Insurrectionists". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  27. "Getty Images Announces Three New Winners of its 2005 Grants for Editorial Photography". CreativePro.com. 2005-09-07. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  28. "Gardi, Lewis, And Weidenhoefer Each Win $20K Getty Images Editorial Photography Grants". NPPA. 2005-09-01. Archived from the original on 2021-07-21. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  29. "Alexia Foundation : Balazs Gardi". www.alexiafoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  30. "2008 Balazs Gardi GN1". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  31. "Global Vision". poy.org. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  32. "Sony World Photography Award 2018, Overall winners revealed". The Telegraph. 19 April 2018. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  33. ""Buzkashi" by Balazs Gardi". World Photography Organisation. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
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