Stefano Carini is an independent photography professional, curator and producer, currently working as the creative director of NOOR Images and the NOOR Foundation.

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His core interest lies in visual education, visual literacy, and indigenous production of visual work.

After studying photography and photojournalism in London, UK, and Arhus, Denmark, he briefly worked as photo editor for NOOR Images in Amsterdam before moving to Iraq, where he led Metrography, the first Iraqi photo agency, through the war with ISIS.

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Carini has trained photographers and visual storytellers, and given lectures and visual laboratories within different communities around the globe.

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Recently, he has turned his attention to studying permaculture, and he cultivates hundreds of endemic species for regenerative purposes.