Emanuele Tortora was born in Vicenza in December 1982. He attended the Art School A. Martini and studied Cultural Heritage Conservation in Brescia, becoming restorer. In 2002 he began to shoot, and in 2005 he attended the Institute of Visual Arts and Photography in Padova. In 2010 enters at Fabrica, the creative center of research of the Benetton Group, and became later a consultant, working with some campaigns of the group's brands.