André Kertész Hall
George Eastman Hall

upcoming
exhibition The Exhibition EXTENDED
to 2nd October 2011 BUDAPEST POSITIVE
10 Years of the Budapest Photography Grant
Imre Benkő, Tamás Dezső, Balázs Gárdi, Norbert Hartyányi, Dániel Kovalovszky, Gábor Arion Kudász, Márk Simon, Gyula Sopronyi, György Stalter, Zoltán Vancsó

Curator: Sári Stenczer
Opening remarks by Enikő Eszenyi actress, Director of Vígszínház

Open to the public: 1st July to 2nd October 2011
on Weekdays: 14.00 - 19.00
at Weekends 11.00 - 19.00

Balázs GÁRDI
b. 1975, Budapest

Concrete Jungle

Balázs Gárdi has quit photographing Budapest for quite some time now. For a while, he was an active and respected member of the VII Photo Agency, travelling across Mexico, Brazil and Afghanistan in the footsteps of his well-known predecessors, J. Sadovy, Griffiths, Capa, and perhaps even Huyn Cong Ut. His photographs reveal the unusual, the unknown, the turbulent, in ever darker tones, in the framework of empathy-provoking media. Our exhibition presents an early series from the photographer, which is not yet infested by the “globalised myth of newsworthiness”, and which, as the title suggests, depicts a world functioning by the laws of the conflict between weak and strong.

Gárdi made his series Concrete Jungle in 2003, supported by the Budapest Photography Grant.

http://www.gardi.hu/

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