Glendalis, The Life and World of a Youngest Daughter

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Published by L’Artiere Edizione, Bologna.

Read about it in The New Yorker and in W Mag.

““In addition to being a direct snapshot of the Lower East Side in the early 2000s, the power of this work lies in the encounter between the vitality that Angela gathers from the street, and the intimacy that her darkroom gives her, through the daily life of the subjects, into her past. And the key to everything, perhaps, lies at the end of the book, in Angela's dedication: “For my family who taught me to remember everything.”” -Giulia Grimaldi Marie Claire Italia

“"The photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.” -Garry Winogrand

“Regarding what my subjects think of my pictures of them. It isn’t for me to say what someone else thinks -  I only want people to enjoy to get lost in what it means for them.” -Angela Cappetta

This analog project traces the life of a youngest daughter in a family on the Lower East Side. Shot exclusively in the fields, buildings and apartments of that neighborhood, the family occupied a multigenerational tenement, a family system which echoes my own. Multiple generations lived on the same block, neighborhood or house, with everyone all on top of each other. Shooting this work felt real and authentic, a call back to who I was as a city kid in one of the most economically stratified cities in America.  Blind Mag referred to me as an “enfant sauvage”-wild child in English.  However, even though I constructed a beatific family narrative in my pictures, the blocks were not beatific at all. Crime, incarceration, gangs and death surrounded these neighborhoods, informed by my own upbringing.