Marco Anelli was born in Rome in 1968.
In 1985, he began his involvement in the field of professional photography, working as an associate of the main motor racing photo agencies (Attualfoto, Photo4, Studio Signori).
In 1992 he moved to Paris, where he specialized in black and white photography, improving development and printing techniques, also working as an associate of the agency Presse/Sport (L'Equipe).
Back in Rome in 1995, he started a long term partnership with the Fabbrica di S. Pietro photo office in the Vatican, which led to the publication of "I Santi fondatori nella Basilica Vaticana" (F.C. Panini, 1996) and "Shadow and Light in St. Peter's" (Silvana Editoriale 1998).
A selection of photographs from this project, which won the Orvieto Photography Award, were exhibited in Milan (1999) and New York (2003).
In 1997 the National Academy of Saint Cecilia entrusted him with an artistic photographic campaign documenting the 1997/98 and 1998/99 concert seasons, which has since been published in a book.
During the same year, ENI entrusted him, together with Mimmo Jodice and Olivo Barbieri, with a photographic reportage of the restoration of the Façade of St. Peter's Basilica (published in "Stone Through Time", Silvana Editoriale, 1999). This partnership will be repeated during the restoration of the façade of Milan Cathedral (2003/'04).
Since 1998, he has been working with Agenzia Giornalistica Italia.
In 2000 he carried out an artistic documentation of the creation and placing in St.Peter's Basilica of the last big sculpture commissioned by the Vatican. The project was published in the volume "St. Catherine from Siena".
Since 2000, he has been collaborating with the Grazia Neri agency and the magazine Sport Week (Gazzetta dello Sport) to carry out a black and white photographic project aiming to illustrate the soccer, winner of Fuji Award 2001 and Canon Award 2001. This work will be exhibited in May 2002 at the Galleria Credito Valtellinese Le Stelline, Milan, and published in a book produced by Federico Motta Editore ("Il Calcio" 2002) and edited by Giovanna Calvenzi, with text by Lucio Dalla.
Since 2000, he has dedicated himself to a study of human relationships seen through other living creatures, entitled "Di Te (about you)". In the framework of this project, he participated in the IX International Biennal Photography "Border Stories" (2001) and won the "Mario Giacomelli" Memorial Prize (2001). "Di Te (about you)" will be exhibited at the Galleria Acta International in May 2002.
In 2001, the work dedicated to the interpretation of the Thied Millennium Sculpture Prize was assigned to him by Brescia-based group Terra Moretti. The result was "Evolution", a sculpture and photography exhibition displayed at the Museo Diocesano, Brescia (November 2001) and the Galleria Grazia Neri, Milan (April-May, 2002).
In 2002 he took part in "Time Flies" in the Pzerophoto project carried out by Pirelli. This work was then published by Federico Motta and displayed at the Museo della Permanente in Milan (2003).
In the same year he photographed the sculptures of Marcello Mondazzi for the exhibition "Frale Silente" in Palermo (La Zisa, December 2002 - January 2003; D'Agostino catalogue) and in Milan (Spazio Aperto San Fedele, November - December 2003).
In 2003 he was invited by Telecom Italia to photograph the Telecom Italia Masters tennis championship at the Foro Italico in Rome.
In 2004 he went on with his photographic research project on sport, photographing the world of Golf at the Italian open; then he realizes “Di Te (about you)” 2004, chapter II, focusing his attention exclusively on branches and clouds elaborated during the development process. This work was exhibited at the gallery of contemporary art DE CRESCENZO & VIESTI (Rome).
In 2005 he realizes a reportage on the Nuova Fiera di Milano, following published in the volume "La Fiera dei Primati".
From 2005 he is teaching of the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome.
In 2006, on the invitation of the Credito Valtellinese Foundation, he photographed the marble quarries together with Stefania Beretta. The work entitled CAVE (QUARRIES) will now be exhibited in a travelling exhibition and published in a book.
The same year he began his new research project, TETRIS, focused on the forms and architecture of large-scale construction works underway in Italy.
In 2007 starts a photographic reserch in macro on the human body. The first work is focused to the Marina Abramovic 's scars.
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