Darko Dozet was born on December 7th, 1976, in Novi Sad, where he completed Graphic Secondary School, in the department of photography. In 1996, he began working for the Novi Sad daily Dnevnik. From 1998 until 2007, he worked as a photo reporter at Tanjug News Agency, and since 2007, he has been a photo reporter for the Novosti Company.

He has collaborated with the world’s most prominent news agencies, including Reuters, European Pressphoto Agency, and Associated Press, and his photographs have been published in nearly every major international journal and magazine. His work has illustrated more than one thousand front pages of leading media outlets, primarily Večernje Novosti.

Throughout his career, he has explored nearly every branch of journalistic photography. Since 1998, he has been a member of the Journalists’ Association of Serbia and has served on its management board since 2017.

Darko has held independent exhibitions in over fifty cities, both in Serbia and abroad. He is the author of the project “Roots of the Soul”, dedicated to Kosovo and Metohija, and a co-author of the project “Witnesses of Permanence”, which presents Serbian culture and heritage in Romania.

He is also behind the photo monograph “Guardians of Memories and Witnesses of History”, dedicated to his fellow photo reporters from World War II to the present day.

On numerous occasions, he has given lectures on newspaper photography at institutions such as the Russian Museum of Photography, University of Novi Sad, Museum of Vojvodina, Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, Cultural Centre of Zrenjanin, and many others.

Darko is the founder and president of the Photo Association of Vojvodina and one of the founders of the Association of Photo Reporters of Serbia—the first organization of its kind in Serbia, uniting photographers employed in the media.

For four consecutive years, he successfully organized collective exhibitions featuring the work of photo reporters from Novi Sad and Vojvodina. He also organized the traveling collective exhibition “Operation Storm, a Continuous Crime”, which over the past two years was shown at Trg Slobode and other town squares in Vojvodina. With the blessing of the Serbian Orthodox Church, he organized the exhibition “700 Years of Krupa Monastery.”

He is the proud recipient of numerous awards for his work and creativity in photography. Some of the most notable include the first prize at the International Reportage and Media Festival Interfer in 2015, when he was also named the best photo reporter of Večernje Novosti.

In 2016, he received the “Laza Kostić” Award for photography, presented by the Journalists’ Association of Serbia.