Balazs Gardi

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Balazs Gardi
Balázs Gárdi
Balazs Gardi on USS Rafael Peralta (cropped).jpg
Gardi on the USS Rafael Peralta in 2023
Born
Budapest, Hungary
Alma mater MÚOSZ Journalism School  [ hu ]
Website balazsgardi.com

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]

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Education

Gardi first studied photography under József Hefelle at the Budapesti Komplex SZC Kézművesipari vocational high school before attending the MÚOSZ Journalism School  [ hu ] 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

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