Angela Cappetta

Angela Cappetta (born 1974) is an American photographer based in New York City.

Early in her career, Cappetta produced a series entitled Glendalis, a multi-year documentary of a young girl growing up in a Latin American community in New York City. It is part of the Nosotros: Portraits of Latinas exhibition which has traveled to museums United States since 2007, including The Grace Museum in Abilene; the Sonoma County Museum; and was one of the inaugural exhibitions of the Museo Alameda in San Antonio, the affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution dedicated to Latino culture.

In 2013, with permission from the president of the Joffrey Ballet School, Cappetta was the photographer-in-residence there for 2 years, completing a gritty body of black and white film work of dancers in training. It was featured in Newsweek/The Daily Beast, and aPhotoEditor. To quote Cappetta: "It was two years of me trying not to get kicked in the head".

Cappetta's work is included in the collections of The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and The New York Public Library. She has received multiple fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and has received funding from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Rauschenberg Foundation. She has also completed fellowships at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts at Sweet Briar College and Atlantic Center for the Arts.

Cappetta works regularly as a commercial shooter, often being asked to shoot analog film for her clients. Her photographs have appeared in worldwide publications such as Photo District News, Marie Claire, WIRED, The Knot, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Time Out New York and Time (magazine). She donates her work richly to the non-profit sector and is known for print donations to The American Folk Art Museum annual fundraiser and VLA.

Cappetta's work has been collected by such major modern art collectors as Agnes Gund and the late Civil War historian Shelby Foote. She speaks four languages, travels and photographs extensively and is known for using a custom Pannaroma camera made by Siciliano Camera Works [1], one of only 30 such cameras in the world [2]

Cappetta is a champion of Multiple Sclerosis awareness. She works with top model Shannon Rusbuldt for the FearlessMS campaign since 2011. They continue to work together on Multiple Sclerosis charity work. This advertisement campaign benefits the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation.