Pedro Farias-Nardi is a Visual Anthropologist graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa at the City University of New York, Studies in visual anthropology at the University of Southern California (USC), PhD University of Florida in Gainesville (UF).

He has won several photo contests, including the Prix International Photography Awards in the category of Portrait 2010 (2nd place) and the Grand Prize Contest Easter 2011 of the Ministry of Culture, Dominican Republic. He has participated in international exhibitions with his work on Haitians Migrants Workers in the Dominican Republic. Furthermore, his work of the earthquake in Haiti was exhibit by ProDocumentales, Spain; and of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Manes Gallery, Prague. His images are part of the collection of the Schomburg Center in New York, for African Culture. In the year 2010 presented a series of portraits, El Otro (The Other) in Casa de Teatro, part of PhotoImagen 2010 in Dominican Republic. In 2011 he had the following exhibits: Chernobyl Nuclear Heritage during the month of photography in the Centro de la Imagen and Geografia de la Indiferencia: Bateyes de la Linea (Geography of Indiference: Bateys of the northwest line) in Ramon Oviedo Gallery in the Ministry of Culture, both in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Pedro Farias-Nardi has spent much of his career anthropological and photographic, document the living conditions of socially and economically marginalized people, the response of these groups to the policies of modern capitalism and its impact on marginalized sectors of society, together with documentation of cultural dynamics that are in the process of change in his home country and in Latin America.

He has done several anthropological studies and photo essays on
the questioning and the creation of imaginaries in culture, and the human condition in different environments and social enclaves in different geographical areas, ranging from cotton farmers in India, the miners in the Bolivian Altiplano, the human situation after the disaster at Chernobyl, Ukraine and the Bateyes of the Northwest, Dominican Republic, among others.

He also teaches photography at the Department of Architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, Santo Domingo.