I AM DARIO

  • Dates
    2012 - 2016
  • Author
  • Topics Daily Life, Contemporary Issues, Documentary

Gianluca was born in Turin in 1977. Lives in Rome. He studies and the comparison with Italian and foreign photographers and photo editors, have enabled him to understand what he was really interested in telling and to mature his own idea of photography. He has exhibited in several in photo festival.

This is a project that I developed in about two years and half. Is an intimate portrait of the life of a boy who lives and works in Rome, in the east quadrant, where the photos have been taken mainly. Dario is a boy of 30 years now, but a photo of the selection shows him at 25, that works in a bingo hall at Torpignattara, a working class borough. At the same time he attends and works in some of the underground LGBT clubs, but above all plays his cards to have success as a singer. To me the project on Dario has been a chance to tell about part of underground and LGBT scene of Rome that usually is not seen in the media. At the same time this story works as metaphor of the Life. Everyone of us have dreams and struggle to realize his own dreams. Most often people do not realize their dreams but we live in the tension, in the idea of realize them, exactly as Dario does.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2015 Rome - Italy. Portrait of Dario. Dario dreams to become a notorious singer and live of his music.
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2015 Rome - Italy. Portrait of Dario. Dario dreams to become a notorious singer and live of his music.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2015 Rome - Italy. cherry blossoms near the home of dario
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2015 Rome - Italy. cherry blossoms near the home of dario

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2015 Rome - Italy. Portrait of Dario. Dario dreams to become a notorious singer and live of his music.
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2015 Rome - Italy. Portrait of Dario. Dario dreams to become a notorious singer and live of his music.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2014 Rome - Italy. During the summer's night Dario and some friends are used to enjoy the public pool to spend the night.
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2014 Rome - Italy. During the summer's night Dario and some friends are used to enjoy the public pool to spend the night.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2015 Rome - Italy. Performing with his friend Antonella in an undergrond club.
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2015 Rome - Italy. Performing with his friend Antonella in an undergrond club.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2015 Rome - Italy. The make-up before te show.
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2015 Rome - Italy. The make-up before te show.

© Gianluca Abblasio - Image from the I AM DARIO photography project
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2015 Rome - Italy. The area of ​​the Bingo hall where Dario usually to works. This area, Torpignattara, is a working-class area, probably the most crowded and multicultural area of ​​Rome.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2014 Rome - Italy. Dario working at the Bingo Hall.
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2014 Rome - Italy. Dario working at the Bingo Hall.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2014 Rome - Italy. During the summer's night Dario and some friends are used to enjoy the public pool to spend the night.
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2014 Rome - Italy. During the summer's night Dario and some friends are used to enjoy the public pool to spend the night.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2014 Rome - Italy. Discussing in the club.
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2014 Rome - Italy. Discussing in the club.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2015 Rome - Italy. Two girls.
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2015 Rome - Italy. Two girls.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2015 Rome - Italy. first of the year at Bingo hall where he works.
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2015 Rome - Italy. first of the year at Bingo hall where he works.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2014 Rome - Italy. Dario and some friends.
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2014 Rome - Italy. Dario and some friends.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2015 Rome - Italy. Dario performing with Antonella in a private party.
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2015 Rome - Italy. Dario performing with Antonella in a private party.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2011 Rome - Italy. Dancing in a LGBT party.
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2011 Rome - Italy. Dancing in a LGBT party.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2014 Rome - Italy. Dario sleeping with Alice.
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2014 Rome - Italy. Dario sleeping with Alice.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2014 Rome - Italy. Dario lookig for albums at thrift shop.
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2014 Rome - Italy. Dario lookig for albums at thrift shop.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2015 Capri - Italy. Dario with his mother and his sister .
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2015 Capri - Italy. Dario with his mother and his sister .

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2015 Rome - Italy. The Sun is raising. Time for the last beer with a friend.
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2015 Rome - Italy. The Sun is raising. Time for the last beer with a friend.

© Gianluca Abblasio - 2014 Rome - Italy . Play with pigeons at the dawn.
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2014 Rome - Italy . Play with pigeons at the dawn.

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