Bruna Ginammi was born in Bergamo in 1964. In 1989 she started as a photographer, collaborating as a portraitist with various Italian and foreign newspapers, for which she photographed the major poets of the second half of the 20th century. In the 1990s, she undertook various photographic researches: she made portraits of rotting fruit and vegetables, filmed the destruction of the PAC by a bomb for political reasons, followed its reconstruction and investigated the intimacy of Italian families.
In 2001 she became a mother and resumed photographing her body, investigating the theme of identity begun in 1994.
After 2017 she carried out several projects, such as Mutatis where mythology and imagination meet – a series dedicated to our ancestors and the meaning of birth -, Kosmos in which she recreates a new fantasy world made of light, water and plastic, and finally HOME, a series dedicated to the fragile dwellings of fruit pickers in Rosarno. Since 2021 she has been a member of Gallerie Mazzoli, with whom she published La decomposizione della materia (Decomposition of Matter) in 2023.
The meaning of her photography can be found in a phrase by the American philosopher Emerson: “One must have the ability to dignify what is humble by elevating it and to see art everywhere”.