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Balazs Gardi
$15,000 professional grant winner.
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Balazs Gardi, 30, from Budapest, Hungary, has been a freelance photographer since August, 2003, when he left the staff of the largest Hungarian national daily newspaper, Nepszabadsag, where he had worked since 1996. He was a staff photographer at Nepszava for a year before that.
He studied in the Budapest School of Photography from 1993-1995 and in the School of Photojournalism of the Association of Hungarian Journalists in 1995-1996. He studied for a term at Cardiff University School of Journalism and Media and Cultural Studies in Wales with a grant from Reuters Foundation in 2000. That year he was chosen for a World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and he was a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Award.
He has been selected Photographer of the Year in Hungary three times — in 1999, 2000, and 2002. He was named one of PDN's "30 under 30" in 2002.
Gardi is a board member of the Association of Hungarian Press Photographers, member of the Association of Hungarian Journalists and the Association of Hungarian Photographic Artists.
He is currently working on a documentary of the Eastern European Roma community.
His work can also be viewed at http://www.gardi.hu/.
The judges winnowed the professional entries down from 240 to five applications this year before selecting Gardi for the grant. The others in the top five, in no particular order, are Simon Roberts, freelance from England; Lana K. Slezic, freelance from Ontario, Canada; Stuart Freedman, freelance from England; and David Holloway, freelance photographer/writer from Arlington, Va.
The judging was done at Syracuse University on Feb. 25, 2006. Judges were Pim Van Hemmen, director of photography at the Newark Star Ledger; Ed Kashi, freelance documentary photographer from New Jersey; and Bob Gilka, former National Geographic director of photography and adjunct professor of photojournalism and picture editing at Syracuse University.
Alexia Foundation
Pictures to Show
At United Nations.
Opening March 22.
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After 16 years of providing grants to photojournalists, The Alexia Foundation will exhibit a selection of photographers' work at the United Nations. Some of the pictures that will be shown are on topics such as the civil war in Sierra Leone; the controversy over the Confederate flag in South Carolina; the war in Chechnya; and prison life in the U.S. The show will open at the United Nations Building in New York on Wednesday, March 22. Tickets are required for the opening. Admission is free from March 23 to mid-April. Read more
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Past Alexia Winners
Meet Foundation Creators
in Perpignan, France
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The Alexia Foundation was recognized for 15 years of dedication to photojournalism in at the 17th annual Visa Pour L'Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, in September, 2005. Read more
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Melanie Blanding
First place student scholarship winner.
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Melanie Blanding is a senior photojournalism major at Western Kentucky University. She has had internships at The Flint Journal in Flint, Mich., and at the U.S. Army Public Affairs Office at Ft. Knox, KY. She is photo editor of The Talisman, the WKU yearbook, and a staff photographer for The College Heights Herald, the WKU newspaper, and is president of the WKU NPPA student chapter. She won a $9,000 scholarship to study photojournalism at the Syracuse University London Centre and a $1,000 grant to produce her picture story.
Second place student winner Sumit Dayal attended University of Delhi and the Triveni Art Academy in New Delhi, India, and now is in a one year documentary and photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography in New York. The second place award is a $6,000 scholarship and a grant of $500.
Award of Excellence winners are Daniel Etter, from Cologne, Germany; Sloan Breeden, graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin; and Medi Nahmiyaz, from Jerusalem, Israel.
Etter is a student at the University of Bonn, Germany, where he studies political science, English literature and media science. He is a freelance writer for Solinger Tageblatt, a newspaper in Germany, and interned at Black Star in New York in 2005.
Breeden graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BA in English Literature. He taught English in Beijing and Dalian, China, from 2002-2004.
Nahmiyaz is a graduate student of international relations at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, attended Stendhal University in France and Bosphorous University in Turkey, and received a BA in political science from Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio.
Each Award of Excellence winner receives a $500 cash grant and a $1600 scholarship.
48 students from 10 countries applied to the competition this year.
Each student winner receives a scholarship that pays part of tuition, fees and living expenses to study photojournalism in London in the fall semester at the Syracuse University London Centre and a cash grant to help produce their proposed story.
Judging
The judging was done at Syracuse University on Feb. 25, 2006. Judges were Pim Van Hemmen, director of photography at the Newark Star Ledger, Ed Kashi, freelance documentary photographer from New Jersey and Bob Gilka, former National Geographic director of photography and adjunct professor of photojournalism and picture editing at Syracuse University.
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