Massimo sestini biography

Massimo Sestini was born in Prato (Florence) in 1963.

Self-taught, he started taking pictures while he was still in high school, photographing rock concerts and covering the news for local papers.

His first scoops were published in the middle of the 1980s: the portrait of Licio Gelli while he was taken into prison in Geneva (Gelli is a former Italian financier, known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal, in 1981 he was revealed as being the Venerable Master of the clandestine lodge Propaganda Due); the images of the Train 904 bombing - also known as the Christmas Massacre, a terror attack on December 23, 1984, in the Apennine Base Tunnel - that made him achieve his first international cover on Stern.

From then on he founded Massimo Sestini News Picture - where he collaborates with numerous photographers helping them grow - and focused on news and on celebrities’ private life stolen images.

This marked the beginning of his career as a paparazzo, but his approach to pho