Balazs Gardi | |
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Balázs Gárdi | |
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Alma mater | MÚOSZ Journalism School |
Website | balazsgardi |
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]
Gardi first studied photography under József Hefelle at the Budapesti Komplex SZC Kézművesipari vocational high school before attending the MÚOSZ Journalism School[5] and later the University of Wales, Cardiff.[6]
in BudapestGardi 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]