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Dario De Dominicis

Dario De Dominicis (Rome 1965) has been working as a professional photographer since 1993 and has published his works in several Italian and international magazines (Espresso, El Pais, Le Monde, Newsweek, The Guardian). Since 1998 he has increasingly turned his attention to documentary photography, realizing several personal projects. In 2001 he published in the Corriere della Sera Magazine a four-year investigation on the monarchist movements in Italy. From 2002 to 2009 he taught photojournalism at the Roberto Rossellini State Institute of Cinema and Television in Rome. From 2003 to 2009 he held photo-reportage courses at Officine Fotografiche and other schools in the capital. In 2004, he published his first black and white book "Una storia cubana", published by Postcart. This long-term project summarizes a ten-year investigation on the transformation taking place in Cuba after the fall of the European socialist bloc.

In 2009 he moved to Rio de Janeiro. From 2011 to 2016 he collaborated with the main European newspapers for which he followed the socio-political events in Brazil in preparation for the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics. Between 2012 and 2013 he made several trips to the Amazon for the photographic documentation of the book “Soldati di Gomma”, published in 2015 by Escrituras Editrice. Between 2013 and 2017 he followed an important pilgrimage dedicated to the figure of Saint Francis, which takes place in the Brazilian north-east. The work was exhibited in Rome and Rio de Janeiro and is part of a documentary film on photography, produced by Globo Film. Since 2014 he has documented the serious consequences that marine pollution is causing on the economy and health of the community of artisanal fishermen in Guanabara Bay. This photographic project in 2020 won first prize in the “Madre Terra” section of the Festival della Fotografia Etica di Lodi and in 2021 was a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant.

L’anima francescana del Brasile © Dario De Dominicis