Balazs gardi photographer

Hungarian photographer

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 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 pub