Annalisa Natali Murri
A Respectable Family (The Murri’s Affair)
[ EPF 2018 FINALIST ]
This project comes out from my urge to put back together the pieces of an infamous story that has accompanied my family since September 2nd, 1902. That day Linda Murri, daughter of my great-grandfather, had her husband, count Bonmartini, stabbed to death in his house in Bologna. For this crime my great-grandfather Tullio, Linda’s brother, was unjustly accused and served a sentence several years in prison, marking the life of my family forever. This ongoing project, centered in identity, intimacy and memory, roots itself in my own family archives, official documents and other family heirlooms, and aims to preserve the thread between past and present: my wish is to recover connections within my own family heritage, inquiring about memory and how the events experienced by my ancestors have been affecting subsequent family generations, including myself.
Short Bio
Annalisa Natali Murri, freelance photographer, approached for the first time to photography at age 27, while attending Architectural and Urban Photography School in Valencia (Spain). After completing her studies in engineering, soon she began to alternate her work to photography, focusing on personal research works and documentary projects, mainly inspired by social issues and their psychological consequences.
In 2014 she was selected as an attendee for LOOKbetween mentorship program and in 2015 she was named one of the 30 emerging photographers to watch at PDN’s 30.
Her works have been awarded and highlighted in several international contests and awards, including 70th and 71st POYi, Sony World Photography Award, Burnmagazine Emerging Photographer Fund, Catchlight’s Activist Awards and PHM Women Photographers Grant.
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The Emerging Photographer Fund is supported by generous donors to the Magnum Foundation
