Balazs Gardi

Balazs Gardi
Balázs Gárdi
Gardi on the USS Rafael Peralta in 2023
Born1975 (age 49–50)
Budapest, Hungary
Alma materMÚOSZ Journalism School
Websitebalazsgardi.com

Balazs Gardi (born 1975)[1] is a Hungarian-American photographer.[2][3] Gardi photographed the landscape of the war in Afghanistan over a two decade period.[4][5][6] Gardi has travelled to dozens of countries to survey and photograph the consequences of the global water crisis.[7][8][9]

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.[10][11]

Photography career

Gardi started working as a photographer for the daily newspaper Népszabadság around 2000.[12] 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.[13] His photographs have appeared publications including Harper's Magazine,[14] National Geographic,[15] The New York Times,[16][17] Wired,[18] Time,[19] Outside,[20] The Atlantic,[21] Newsweek,[22][23] and The Guardian.[24]

Gardi's series titled "Thirst," depicts human civilization in water stressed areas.[7] The Thirst series is part of Facing Water Crisis, Gardi's project documenting the impact of human population growth on water scarcity.[7][9]

In 2010 and 2011, he documented the First Battalion, Eighth Marines, throughout their deployment in southern Afghanistan's war-torn deserts.[4][5] 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".[5][6]

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]

The Storm, a body of work Gardi created during the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential election working alongside writer Luke Mogelson for The New Yorker, was a finalist for the 11th cycle of Prix Pictet Award.[26][27]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions of Gardi’s work have been held at the European Parliament, Brussels (2005); DokuFoto, Prizren (2007 and 2008); The New York Photo Festival (2011); and Roca Gallery, Barcelona (2015).[28][29][30] Gardi has also participated in group exhibitions at venues including Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (2008); Les Invalides, Paris (2009); Noorderlicht Gallery, Groningen (2008 and 2010); The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles (2009); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (2012) and Saatchi Gallery, London (2022).[28][31][32]

Awards

Gardi has received grants and fellowships from the Alexia Foundation, INK, Magnum Foundation, Reuters Foundation, World Press Photo Foundation and Getty Images.[33][34][35][11] He is the recipient of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, in 2008; the Global Vision Award at Pictures of the Year International in 2009 and three first prizes at World Press Photo.[10][7][36][37][38]

References

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  3. ^ "Four Photographers To Follow on Instagram This Memorial Day Weekend". Popular Photography. 28 May 2016. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
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  5. ^ a b c "War photography? Isn't there an app for that?". the Guardian. 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  6. ^ a b Gardi, Balazs. "The War in Hipstamatic". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  7. ^ a b c d Gardi, Balazs. "The Waters Beneath". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  8. ^ "The Basetrack Project". The Graffiti of War Project. Archived from the original on 2011-09-08. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  9. ^ a b "In the Pic with Balazs Gardi & Teru Kuwayama – Two Sides of the Story". Frontline Club. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
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  13. ^ Gardi, Balazs. "The Roma People by Balazs Gardi - The Digital Journalist (November 2006)". digitaljournalist.org. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
  14. ^ Gardi, Balazs (2017-09-12). "[Postcard] | Volunteer Army, by Balazs Gardi". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  15. ^ "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.
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  18. ^ "Virginia's Election on Tuesday Will Test the Power of Silicon Valley's New Activists". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
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  20. ^ Motlagh, Jason (2017-11-01). "It's Like the NFL. But with Horses and a Headless Calf". Outside Online. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  21. ^ Stern, Jacob. "Photos of California's Suffocating Smoke". The Atlantic. ISSN 1072-7825. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  22. ^ 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)
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  24. ^ 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.
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  27. ^ Mogelson, Luke (15 January 2021). "Among the Insurrectionists". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
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  33. ^ "Getty Images Announces Three New Winners of its 2005 Grants for Editorial Photography". CreativePro.com. 2005-09-07. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
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  37. ^ "Sony World Photography Award 2018, Overall winners revealed". The Telegraph. 19 April 2018. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  38. ^ ""Buzkashi" by Balazs Gardi". World Photography Organisation. Archived from the original on 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
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