Stefano Frontini was born in Rome in 1970. He has lived in Rome, Milan, Vienna, Dubai, and Cuernavaca, Mexico. Since 2010, he has lived in San José del Cabo, in the extreme southern tip of Baja California. A passionate naturalist, scholar, hiker, sailor, and diver, he has visited more than fifty countries on exploratory trips, many of them solo.

In Baja California, he has organized and led documentary expeditions on behalf of the National Geographic Society of London, the National Audubon Ornithology Society of San Diego, and the Faculty of Geology of Columbia University in New York. He has accompanied many other Italian and foreign photographers and documentary filmmakers to the most fascinating places on the peninsula. He is considered the Italian who knows the peninsula best throughout its entire history, both above and below the sea.