About Michele
Michele is a photographer born in the outskirts of Milan, Italy. He studied biomedical engineering at Politecnico di Milano. During his master’s studies he moved to Singapore for a year and a half. In this experience he 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 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 and recount people and their stories. For this reason he has been attending the photo-reportage school of photographer Valerio Bispuri since November 2022.
He then moved to Zürich, Switzerland, where he worked at ETH as a postdoctoral researcher since November 2022. Meanwhile, as a photojournalist, Michele has been crafting a project on home accessibility with a squat community: the development of this work motivates what keeps this underrepresented communities alive and narrates their often-forgotten anthropological aspects.
Michele carried out two other reportages, in Buenos Aires and Santiago de Cuba. His narrative focused on home access—too frequently taken for granted—and socio-humanitarian issues. He’s enrolled in a 2-year postgraduate program in the London School of Journalism and works now full-time as a freelance photojournalist.