Michele Crestani is a photographer born in Magenta, Italy, in 1992. Michele studied biomedical engineering at Politecnico di Milano. During his master's he moved to Singapore for a year and a half. In this experience pursued photography as an amateur, bringing to the surface a gift that his father passed to him as a child. Through trips in Southeast Asia, Michele witnessed extreme poverty, religions, glittering luxury. These aspects, combined with the interest in how history and recent society shape human beings, influenced his vision of the world and relationships with others.
Michele moved to Milan in 2018, where he obtained a PhD in Systems Medicine in 2022. His maturation passed through the search for other means to express himself, recount and understand people and their social dynamics. For this reason he has been attending the photo-reportage school of photographer Valerio Bispuri since November 2022.
He then moved to Zurich, Switzerland, where he still resides and works since November 2022. Here, he regularly works on a photographic project regarding home accessibility, carried out with a squat community in Zurich: the long-term development of this work envisages motivating what keeps this community alive and narrating its often-forgotten anthropological aspects. Now he works as freelance photographer.