Balazs Gardi

Balazs Gardi is a Hungarian-born, American-based photographer. 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.
Education.
Gardi studied journalism and photography in Budapest and at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
Photography career.
Gardi started working as a photographer for a Hungarian daily newspaper around 2000. 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. His photographs have appeared publications including "Harper's Magazine," "National Geographic," "The New York Times," "Wired," "Time", "Outside," "The Atlantic," "Newsweek", and "The Guardian".
His series titled "Thirst," depicts human civilization in water stressed areas. The Thirst series is part of "Facing Water Crisis", Gardi's project documenting the impact of human population growth on water scarcity.
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." 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".
In 2011, Gardi travelled to rural KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa to document the communities who live there. 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". Gardi's photographs accompanied an article titled "The Storm" by Luke Mogelson in the print edition of the January 25, 2021, issue.