Daria Addabbo was born in 1979 in Rome, where she currently lives and works. After following her studies at the Faculty of Literature, she moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she attended a course in photojournalism. Back in Rome, she followed the master of photojournalism, at the ISFCI. Her work has been published on Espresso, Di di Repubblica, Internazionale, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, The Washington Post, Gioia, Grazia, Donna Moderna, GQ, Mind, La Revista. In 2013 she completed an internship in the Photo Unit office at the World Food Programme (WFP). In 2015 she reportage called “In the footsteps of Tom Joad”, in which she retraced the journey of the Joad family, the main character in John Steinbeck's novel “The grapes of wrath", along what is left of Route 66 today. This work has been published in various magazines, including L’Espresso, and it was shown at the American Embassy in Rome. In May 2016 she won a Prize at the International Photography Festival in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with the work "Profondo familiare." In September 2016 she has maked a reportage for Vanity Fair, about the presidential elections. In August 2018 her work “Profondo familiare” was exhibited at Festival de la Luz in Buenos Aires.
From 2019 to 2020 she published three books with Jaca Book: This Hard Land, sulle strade di Springsteen, with texts written by music journalist Gino Castaldo (published also on Vanity Fair Italia, Mind and The Washington Post); Un altro giorno è andato, le stagioni di Francesco Guccini with texts written by Gino Castaldo and Acque d’America, with texts written by American culture professor Alessandro Portelli and introduction by environmental journalist Ferdinando Cotugno.
Her recent projects on the issue of water have been published on D (the magazine of Repubblica), on Internazionale and on El País. This project was submitted for consideration for several prizes, including the World Press Photo and Sony World Photography Awards.
In october 2022 she was invited from Francesco Costa to talk about the American province at the Gallerie D'Italia, in Turin, during the exhibition of Gregory Crewdson.
