About Us
The owner of Texas Capital Photography, Angelina Daves has been photographing professionally for over 10 years.  She received a BFA, in Studio Art from UT Austin.   There she trained in Fine Art Photography and Oil painting.  At UT Angelina worked closely with and was mentored by Fine Artists Troy Brauntuch, Peter Saul & Lawrence McFarland.  She has exhibited photos both locally and internationally, traveling to locations such as Mexico City and Havana, Cuba for exhibitions.  In 1999, she met and befriended the celebrated poet and human rights activist Raul R. Salinas.  Salinas introduced her to Red Salmon Arts, a Native American/Chicano based cultural arts organization founded by Salinas.  The writers, visual artists & historians that Angelina met through the organization inspired her to start spending less time in the studio and more time out in the world photographing her experiences.  In 2006, Angelina began collaborating with fellow photographer Matt Archer.  Archer, a photojournalist, furthered her technical education in editorial photography.  Angelina is currently working on her first book with Irene Silva and Moises Lara titled “IYOLLO: Texas Chicana and Chicano Poets on Healing”.

Visual art has been an important part of my life for as long as I can remember.  My mother is a gifted painter.  She began teaching me to draw and paint still life and people at the age of seven.  That same year my father began taking me on annual trips across country where we visited world class museums like the MET and MOMA.  My parents both love the late 19th and early 20th century Impressionist painters.  This early exposure to these great works of art and techniques still impacts my studio and editorial photography today.”

 “I discovered my love of photography at nineteen years old while in art school studying drawing and painting.   I borrowed a friend’s manual 35mm camera and a light meter.  Then spent an entire day walking around the city photographing different people and scenes that I encountered; I was hooked right from that day.”

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