Yannick Cormier was born in France. In the early 2000s he worked in the studio Astre in Paris parallel to his photographic studies in CIFAP. He worked with magazines such as Vogue, Flair, Elle, Vanity Fair. He then began his career as a documentary photographer. He teamed up with the agency Wostokpress and was sent to India as a correspondent.He founded the agency Trikaya Photos in India, to showcase emerging photographers working on sensitive issues. Since 2009, he has been working on the conflict in the region of Kashmir, the problem of drugs addiction in Kolkata and the marginalized transsexual community across India.

His images have been published in various international magazines (OjodePez, Courrier international, Libération,The sunday guardian, Le Nouvel Observateur, The Hindu, etc...) and exhibited in India and abroad.