Balazs Gardi Explained

Balazs Gardi
Native Name:Balázs Gárdi
Native Name Lang:hu
Birth Place:Budapest, Hungary

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

Gardi first studied photography under József Hefelle at the Budapesti Komplex SZC Kézművesipari vocational high school before attending the 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.[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.

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.

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Balazs Gardi. 2020-09-28. Annenberg Space for Photography. en-US.
  2. Web site: Four Photographers To Follow on Instagram This Memorial Day Weekend. 2020-09-30. Popular Photography. 28 May 2016 . en.
  3. Web site: 2008 Balazs Gardi GNS1-AL. 2020-09-29. www.worldpressphoto.org.
  4. Web site: Balazs Gardi - 2018 Sony Professional Grant. 2020-09-28. World Photography Organisation. en.
  5. News: Exkluzív interjú Gárdi Balázs fotográfussal . hu . Exclusive Interview with Photographer Balázs Gárdi . Fotó Art Magazin . 2022-07-29.
  6. Web site: The Basetrack Project. 2020-09-30. The Graffiti of War Project. en. 2011-09-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20110908062439/http://www.graffitiofwar.com/the-basetrack-project.html. dead.
  7. Web site: Gárdi Balázs. 2020-09-28. www.tedxdanubia.com. hu. 2016-05-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20160530045431/http://www.tedxdanubia.com/speaker/gardi-balazs. dead.
  8. Web site: Balazs. Gardi. The Roma People by Balazs Gardi - The Digital Journalist (November 2006). 2020-09-28. digitaljournalist.org.
  9. 2017-09-12. Balazs. Gardi. [Postcard] Volunteer Army, by Balazs Gardi]. 2020-09-29. Harper's Magazine. en.
  10. Web site: 2016-03-22. See Powerful Pictures of How We're Using and Misusing Water. https://web.archive.org/web/20191001213102/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/03/160322-world-water-day-photographs-pictures-california-dubai-drought/. dead. October 1, 2019. 2020-09-28. National Geographic News. en.
  11. Web site: U.S. - Image - NYTimes.com. 2020-09-29. archive.nytimes.com.
  12. Web site: Kamber. Michael. 2010-12-21. Covering Marines at War, Through Facebook. 2020-09-29. Lens Blog. en-US.
  13. Virginia's Election on Tuesday Will Test the Power of Silicon Valley's New Activists. en-us. Wired. 2020-09-29. 1059-1028.
  14. Balazs Gardi. 2020-09-28. Time.
  15. Web site: Motlagh. Jason. 2017-11-01. It's Like the NFL. But with Horses and a Headless Calf.. 2020-09-30. Outside Online. en.
  16. News: Stern. Jacob. Photos of California's Suffocating Smoke. The Atlantic. 2020-09-30. 1072-7825.
  17. Web site: 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. 2020-09-30. Newsweek. en.
  18. Web site: AI-AP Slideshow. 2020-09-30. www.ai-ap.com.
  19. News: Akintunde. Ahmad. 2021-02-08. Black or blue: the complex double-lives of Oakland's Black police officers. The Guardian. 22 October 2020. 0261-3077.
  20. Web site: Gardi. Balazs. The Waters Beneath. 2020-09-28. Foreign Policy. en-US.
  21. Web site: In the Pic with Balazs Gardi & Teru Kuwayama – Two Sides of the Story. 2020-09-30. Frontline Club. en.
  22. Web site: 2014-10-03. Balazs Gardi in Afghanistan, video portraits of First Battalion, Eighth Marines. 2020-09-28. Streaming Museum. en.
  23. Web site: 2021-02-08. War photography? Isn't there an app for that?. 6 July 2011. the Guardian.
  24. Web site: Gardi. Balazs. The War in Hipstamatic. 2021-02-08. Foreign Policy. en-US.
  25. Web site: Balazs Gardi Cresi. 2020-09-28. Magnum Foundation. en-US. 2020-05-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20200526121710/https://www.magnumfoundation.org/projects/2019/7/2/balazs-gardi-cresi. dead.
  26. Mogelson. Luke. Among the Insurrectionists. 2021-02-08. The New Yorker. 15 January 2021 . en-us.
  27. Web site: 2005-09-07. Getty Images Announces Three New Winners of its 2005 Grants for Editorial Photography. 2020-09-28. CreativePro.com. en-US.
  28. Web site: 2005-09-01. Gardi, Lewis, And Weidenhoefer Each Win $20K Getty Images Editorial Photography Grants. 2020-09-29. NPPA. en. 2021-07-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20210721232935/https://nppa.org/news/450. dead.
  29. Web site: Alexia Foundation : Balazs Gardi. 2020-09-28. www.alexiafoundation.org. 2018-06-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20180612212741/https://www.alexiafoundation.org/stories/afghanistan-between-war-and-peace. dead.
  30. Web site: 2008 Balazs Gardi GN1. 2020-09-29. www.worldpressphoto.org.
  31. Web site: Global Vision. 2020-09-30. poy.org.
  32. News: 2021-02-08. Sony World Photography Award 2018, Overall winners revealed. The Telegraph. 19 April 2018. 0307-1235.
  33. Web site: "Buzkashi" by Balazs Gardi. 2020-09-28. World Photography Organisation. en.

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