Giacomo Sini was born in Pisa, Italy, but has lived in Livorno his entire life. He obtained a degree in social sciences at Pisa University in 2014, and has worked as a freelance journalist and photojournalist across fifty countries. He has photographed the realities of conflicts in Syria, Lebanon, and Kurdistan. His work has been published in The Guardian, Vice Magazine, National Geographic, The New Internationalist, Al Jazeera, and Freitag.