In 2019, after studying at the International Center for Photography in New York, Cinque moved to Lima to deepen his long-term work and immerse himself in Peru’s culture and society. In the same year, he began working as a stringer for Reuters, covering the wider Andean region. Cinque’s work has been exhibited worldwide. He is a World Press Photo 2023 winner in the South America category, a winner of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 Sustainability Prize and Laureat du Grand Prix for the 2023 Prix Terre Solidaire. He has been a finalist or nominee for numerous other awards. Cinque has received grants from the National Geographic Society’s Emergency Fund for Journalists (2021) and from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Fund in the same year. His photographs have been published widely in international media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, 6Mois, GEO, Stern, Liberation and others. In 2022, his work appeared on the cover of National Geographic and he became a ‘National Geographic Explorer’. In January 2023, he published his first fanzine, covering his work on the Quechua over the past six years.