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Marco Anelli Author & Illustrator

Marco Anelli is a Roman-born, New York-based photographer. After specializing in black and white photography and printing techniques in Paris, he started working on photographic projects that evolve over long periods of time. In 2010 Anelli took portraits of 1,545 participants in Marina Abramovi?’s performance at the MoMA in New York City (Portraits in the Presence of Marina Abramovi?, Damiani 2010). Building sites and their workers are the subjects of his recent research. In 2015 he completed A Simple Story, his project on the construction of the new Whitney Museum of American Art; and in 2017 he released Building Magazzino (Rizzoli), which documents the construction of Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, NY.