Dario De Dominicis has been working as a professional photographer since 1993 with several Italian and international newspapers (Espresso, Newsweek, Le Monde, Sunday Times, El Pais, Die Zeit).
Since 1998 he has increasingly turned his attention to his personal research and his projects.
In 2001 he completed a project, lasted four years, on the monarchist movement in Italy. The work was published inside the weekly insert of the Corriere della Sera.
From 2002 to 2009 he had teached photojournalism at the Roberto Rossellini State Institute for Cinema and Television 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 fifteen 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. From 2010 to 2016 he collaborates assiduously with the main European newspapers for which he followed Brazilian socio-political events and documented the arrival of two mega-events such as the FIFA Word Cup and Olympics.
In 2012 and 2013 he is called to document visually the story of some old Brazilian men who are the last survivors among the fifty-five thousand people enlisted to collect rubber in the Amazon Rainforest, during the Second World War. The work was presented in a book issued by “Escrituras Publishing” in 2015 and entitled “The Rubber Soldier”. From 2013 to 2017 he carries out a photographic research on a religious event taking place every year in the northeast of Brazil, the second largest pilgrimage for the Feast of Saint Francis in the world. With this project he parteciped in the documentary film “Another Francis” produced by Globo 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.