Excerpt from review for Angela Cappetta’s latest project, “Fitting In.”
If photographer Angela Cappetta in not in her office meeting with a potential client, editing a job, or laying out the perfect artist’s book, then, no doubt, her talents are taking her to shoot jobs for clients that range from Oscar winners (she won’t say who), to international magazines to private commissions at home and abroad. This year, she has Rome and Ankarra on her list of locations where she is being whisked off to do what she does best. The world’s top photo editors have competed to publish her work –she is remarkably unaffected by her accomplishments. “I just want to shoot.” she says deadpan; “I’m happiest when I’m working, shooting. It’s like food to me” This lady means business.
Angela’s makes her work look totally effortless. However, even to an untrained eye, one can see where all of her energy goes: she points it out of her lens with the intensity of a laser beam, and then expends the rest of her creative drive in the darkroom, that’s right, her darkroom. Angela processes everything herself. “No one touches my film but me.” Again, one can’t help but remark at how focused she is (pun intended.)