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
Born
Budapest, Hungary
Websitebalazsgardi.com

Education

Gardi studied journalism and photography in Budapest and at the University of Wales, Cardiff.[5]

Photography career

Gardi started working as a photographer for a Hungarian daily newspaper around 2000.[6] 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.[7] His photographs have appeared publications including Harper's Magazine,[8] National Geographic,[9] The New York Times,[10][11] Wired,[12] Time,[13] Outside,[14] The Atlantic,[15] Newsweek,[16][17] and The Guardian.[18]

His series titled "Thirst," depicts human civilization in water stressed areas.[19] The Thirst series is part of Facing Water Crisis, Gardi's project documenting the impact of human population growth on water scarcity.[19][5][20]

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.[21][22] 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".[22][23]

In 2011, Gardi travelled to rural KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa to document the communities who live there.[24] His work there was supported by a Magnum Foundation Fund grant.[24]

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

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. 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. "The Basetrack Project". The Graffiti of War Project. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  6. "Gárdi Balázs". www.tedxdanubia.com (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  7. Gardi, Balazs. "The Roma People by Balazs Gardi - The Digital Journalist (November 2006)". digitaljournalist.org. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  8. Gardi, Balazs (2017-09-12). "[Postcard] | Volunteer Army, by Balazs Gardi". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  9. "See Powerful Pictures of How We're Using and Misusing Water". National Geographic News. 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  10. "U.S. - Image - NYTimes.com". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  11. Kamber, Michael (2010-12-21). "Covering Marines at War, Through Facebook". Lens Blog. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  12. "Virginia's Election on Tuesday Will Test the Power of Silicon Valley's New Activists". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  13. "Balazs Gardi". Time. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  14. Motlagh, Jason (2017-11-01). "It's Like the NFL. But with Horses and a Headless Calf". Outside Online. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  15. Stern, Jacob. "Photos of California's Suffocating Smoke". The Atlantic. ISSN 1072-7825. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  16. 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.
  17. "AI-AP Slideshow". www.ai-ap.com. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  18. 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.
  19. Gardi, Balazs. "The Waters Beneath". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  20. "In the Pic with Balazs Gardi & Teru Kuwayama – Two Sides of the Story". Frontline Club. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  21. "Balazs Gardi in Afghanistan, video portraits of First Battalion, Eighth Marines". Streaming Museum. 2014-10-03. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  22. "War photography? Isn't there an app for that?". the Guardian. 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  23. Gardi, Balazs. "The War in Hipstamatic". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  24. "Balazs Gardi | Cresi". Magnum Foundation. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  25. Mogelson, Luke. "Among the Insurrectionists". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  26. "Getty Images Announces Three New Winners of its 2005 Grants for Editorial Photography". CreativePro.com. 2005-09-07. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  27. "Gardi, Lewis, And Weidenhoefer Each Win $20K Getty Images Editorial Photography Grants". NPPA. 2005-09-01. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  28. "Alexia Foundation : Balazs Gardi". www.alexiafoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  29. "2008 Balazs Gardi GN1". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  30. "Global Vision". poy.org. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  31. "Sony World Photography Award 2018, Overall winners revealed". The Telegraph. 19 April 2018. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  32. ""Buzkashi" by Balazs Gardi". World Photography Organisation. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
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