Born in Turin in 1985, Carini is an independent thinker. A curator, photographer, and visual educator, Carini’s main focus is education, visual literacy, and indigenous production of documentary works. He has conceived, designed, curated, and produced exhibitions in Italy, Europe, and the Middle East, collaborating with festivals, galleries, and museums of photography and contemporary art. Between 2014 and 2015 he led Metrography, the first Iraqi photo agency through the documentation of the war with ISIS. In 2016 he co-founded DARST Projects, a nomadic platform for documentary projects, with which he produced and published groundbreaking documentary projects (such as Over My Eyes and Map of Displacement). Carini trains photographers and visual storytellers in Europe and the Middle East and has lectured in photography, photojournalism, and visual literacy at photography and art institutions across the world. He is the creative director of NOOR Images an international not-for-profit foundation dedicated to advancing visual education and documentary arts. He resides in Turin, Italy where he lives with his two children. Along with his long-term commitment to the world of images, Carini also co-organizes community-building events to disseminate knowledge on our relationship with plants. He also studies permaculture and cultivates hundreds of endemic species of plants for regenerative and therapeutical purposes.