This photograph by Angela Cappetta was taken in New York in 1995 as part of her long-term documentary project titled "Glendalis." The series focuses on a Puerto Rican girl named Glendalis, whose family lived on multiple floors of a tenement building on Stanton Street in New York’s Lower East Side. For a decade, beginning when Glendalis was nine years old in the 1990s, Cappetta documented her family, capturing both significant events and daily life. The photographer has noted parallels between Glendalis's experiences and her own childhood. Cappetta’s work enhances the collection of 20th-century American photography and represents the Puerto Rican community within the V&A photography collection.

The project has been reappraised in recent years, with articles in The New Yorker (December 2022), Creative Review (September 2024) and Dazed (September 2024) magazines. Cappetta published the project in 2024 as a book, Glendalis: The Life and World of a Youngest Daughter, L’Artiere Edizione, with texts by the photographer and actress Luna Lauren Véléz.

Angela Cappetta (born 1971) is an American documentary-style photographer and film maker of Italian heritage. She grew up in a multi-generational household in New Haven, Connecticut and now lives and works in New York. She received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2000, and completed fellowships at the MacDowell Colony in 2000, 2004 and 2010. Her works are held in the collections of the Center for Photography at Woodstock and the New York Public Library.