Balázs Gárdi Concrete Jungle in the framework of the (R)évolution exhibition Timisoara (Temesvár), CCF, Romania http://www.ccftimisoara.ro/surexpositions Open to the public: 09. June - 24. June 2005.
Concrete Jungle · Balázs Gárdi

Balazs GÁRDI

Education 1993/1995 School of Photography, Hungary
1995/1996 School of Photojournalism of the Association of Hungarian Journalists

Position
Freelance photographer from 2003
Nepszabadsag (largest Hungarian political daily newspaper) from 1996

Board member of the Association of Hungarian Press Photographers, member of the Association of Hungarian Journalists and the Association of Hungarian Photographic Artists

Prizes Balazs Gardi is the only person who has been named ‘Photographer of the Year’ in Hungary three times. He has also been awarded numerous other prizes at the Hungarian Press Photo Contest in the past five years.
In 2000, he was chosen for a World Press Photo 'Joop Swart Masterclass' in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
He spent a term at Cardiff University’ School of Journalism and Media and Cultural Studies in Wales, with a grant from Reuters Foundation.
In the same year he was a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Award.
Balazs Gardi is the 1st prize winner in the sports stories category of World Press Photo 2002.
He won two prizes on the Sixty-First Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition
- General Division/Science/Natural History Picture Story/Award of Excellence
- Magazine Division/Feature Picture Story/ Second Place
Balazs GÁRDI was selected for PDN's ‘30 under 30’ in 2004.