Zürich Street Parade (Schweizer Geschichten 2025, von Michele Crestani) - Swiss Press Award

Michele Crestani

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. Michele moved to Milan in 2018, where he obtained a PhD in Systems Medicine in 2022. He has been attending the photo-reportage school of photographer Valerio Bispuri since November 2022. Michele then moved to Zurich, Switzerland, where he still resides and works at ETH as a postdoctoral researcher since November 2022. He’s enrolled in a 2-year postgraduate program in the London School of Journalism and works as a freelance photojournalist.