Balazs Gardi

Balazs Gardi
Balázs Gárdi
Gardi on the USS Rafael Peralta in 2023
Born
Budapest, Hungary
Alma materMÚOSZ Journalism School [hu]
Websitebalazsgardi.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]

Education

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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

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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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References

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  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. ^ a b "2008 Balazs Gardi GNS1-AL". www.worldpressphoto.org. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  4. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "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. Archived from the original on October 1, 2019. 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "Balazs Gardi | Cresi". Magnum Foundation. Archived from the original on 2020-05-26. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  26. ^ a b 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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