Glendalis, the life and world of a youngest daughter by Angela Cappetta

““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" Marie Claire Italia

This analog project traces the life of a youngest daughter in a family on the Lower East Side. In the pre-gentrified 90’s. Shot exclusively in the fields, buildings and apartments of that neighborhood, the family occupied a multigenerational tenement, a family system which echoes my own. I grew up the same way. Multiple generations lived on the same block, neighborhood or house, with everyone all on top of each other. I was a city kid — independent from a young age just like the daughters in these pictures. Shooting this work felt real and authentic, a call back to who I was as a city kid in New Haven, 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 90’s were not beatific at all. Crime, incarceration, gangs and death surrounded these neighborhoods, informed by my own upbringing.