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Abuelita

Analog photo

24 x 36

Stanton Street NYC

Analog photo

24 x 36

Angela Cappetta

The work was all made in the LES at the turn of the century. Shot exclusively in the pre-gentrified blocks, fields, and buildings of the Lower East Side, the family photographed in this book occupied a multigenerational tenement house on Stanton Street. Their story is told through a protagonist named Glendalis. I was raised within a family system similar to hers, surrounded and embraced by an ever-present cast of relatives and friends. Like me, she was the youngest, and, much as I did, she whispered out in the voice of a last-born — the messenger of a family. This work is informed by my own beginnings. I always perceived it as a search for my own girlhood as well as the larger themes of family and community; the relationships a person nurtures and how they transform along with us through time.