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Balazs Gardi is a freelance photographer, who focuses on documenting the everyday life of marginalized communities facing humanitarian crises. His current long-term project aims to capture how water-related social tensions and geopolitical conflicts shape the future of people worldwide.
Gardi is a member of VII Network, and from 1996 to 2003 was a staff photographer with Hungary’s largest national daily, Nepszabadsag, covering politics, sports, and arts, as well as producing feature stories. He studied journalism and photography both in Budapest, and at the University of Wales, Cardiff, and is a former participant of the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass (2000).
His awards include one from World Press Photo, in 2003, a PDN Photography prize, in 2007, and three Photographer of the Year awards in Hungary (in 2002, 2000 and 1999).
