Dario Picardi
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biography
Dario was born in Naples in 1980.
He has been working as a photographer since 2005, initially as correspondent of La Presse and Sipa Press agency, and later as a freelance, working on long term projects.
His works were made in Italy, England, Montenegro, Bosnia, Serbia, Albania, Romania. For the last 2 years he has been focusing on Italian stories.
naples, italy
Darios' features

Dario Picardi Publishes in “Télérama” Magazine
Photographer Dario Picardi recently published in Télérama Magazine, in an article about french painter Edgar Degas connections to the city of Naples, italy

Bosnia – Traces From The War
July 11 1995 serbian troops commanded by Ratko Mladić killed 8000-10000 Bosnian muslims.

Essay – Civitas
The protagonist of this work it is, at the same time, the main absent: the man.
The man in his social and communal dimension.

Travel – Montenegro
There are several arguments about the derivation of the name “Montenegro”, one of these relates to dark and deep forests that once covered the Dinaric Alps

Religion – Symbola
This feature speaks about the sacredness, in our time, through the great events and traditions

Religion – Ab Nive Sacrum
In Ponticelli, the eastern outskirts of Naples, for 250 years, the 5th of August is celebrated the Mother of God with the title of “Our Lady of the Snows.”

Essay – The Shadow Line
I get away, I run, I go. I greet everybody and go.
Where? Alone? With whome?
Which faces I will meet on the way?
It will be cold, it will be hot?
There will be the sea or the countryside?

Migrations – Arrow South Express 823 – The train of Migrants
The train 823 exp arrow South was been a symbol of the history of Southern Italy. Established in the 50s in the front of the

Religion – Sacred periphery
Sacred Suburbs, devotion that seems a thousand times closer to to Cuban “Santeria” than the Catholic worship: in Naples Padre Pio is mixed with Maradona, the rite with superstition.