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Dario De Dominicis
Roma - Roma - Lazio
Classe utente: Fotografo
Dario De Dominicis (Rome 1965) began working as a professional photographer in 1993. His work is published in several Italian and international newspapers (Espresso, Newsweek, Sunday Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel). In 1999 he produced a reportage on life within the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary on behalf of the Vicariate of Rome. The photos are collected in a celebratory publication for the 2000 Jubilee. Since then he has increasingly turned his attention to personal projects and documentary photography. In 2001 he completed an investigation, lasted four years, on the monarchist movement in Italy, published in the Corriere della Sera Magazine. From 2002 to 2009 he had teached photojournalism at the Roberto Rossellini State Institute for Cinema and Television in Rome. Since 2003 to 2009 he held photojournalism courses at the school Officine Fotografiche in Rome. In 2004, he published his first book in black and white ”A Cuban story”, issues by Postcart. This long-term project summarizes a ten years investigation aimed to follow the Cuba’s transformation after the fall of the socialist block in Europe. In 2009 he moved to Rio de Janeiro to. From 2011 to 2015 he collaborates assiduously with several European newspapers for wich he followed the Brazilian socio-political events and documented the country transformation for the arrival of two sport mega-events such as the FIFA Word Cup and Olympics. In 2012 and 2013 he is called to document visually the story of the last survivors among the fifty-five thousand Brazilians enlisted to collect latex in the Amazon rainforest, during World War II. In 2015, this photo essay was published in a book entitled “The Rubber Soldiers”, issued by “Escrituras Publishing”. In 2013 and 2016 he held workshops and lectures during the International Photography Festival “Paraty em Foco”. From 2013 to 2017 he works on a religious event taking place in northeast of Brazil, the second largest pilgrimage in the world dedicated to the figure of St. Francis. The project has been exhibited in Rome and Rio de Janeiro and will be part of a documentary film about photography and its interaction with contemporary society, produced by Bucanero Film. From 2014 he has been documenting the dramatic consequences that Guanabara Bay's pollution is causing on the economy and health of the artisanal fishermen community. The project is currently ongoing.
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