AAH Photowalk Series: Sunset Park with Michael Dalton

The Alice Austen House will be traveling across the Narrows for our first Brooklyn photowalk. A complimentary walk to February’s Industrial Photowalk, we’ll be exploring another waterfront neighborhood, Sunset Park, with AAH Ecologies artist Michael Dalton.

Home to a vibrant cultural community, a namesake park with elevated panoramic views and a sprawling industrial waterfront, there’s much to explore in this historic Brooklyn neighborhood. Photographer and Sunset Park resident Michael Dalton will be our guide, leading us on our meander to some of his favorite photo spots.

Walk will meet at 1pm at the entrance of Sunset Park at 6th Ave and 44th St. Polaroids are available to rent in advance through our registration page. Registration is highly recommended. There will be a post walk community gathering at at 3pm to mingle with new and old friends and share photos from the walk.

Accessibility Notice: Sunset Park does vary considerably in elevation. Participants should be comfortable with a varied route of hilly and flat terrain and expect to walk approximately 2 miles.

About Michael:

Michael Dalton (b. 1985, Marshfield, Massachusetts) is an artist working in photography, drawing, collage, and video. He earned an MFA from the University of Hartford and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts.

Dalton’s most recent solo exhibition, Labor (2024), was shown at Eric Medsker’s Studio, and his work was included in the group exhibition Triennial of Photography (2023) at the Alice Austen House. Past solo exhibitions include For The Birds at Minor League Gallery in Atlanta and The Great Falls at FK Gallery in Berlin in 2018. He has participated in group exhibitions across the United States and Germany.

Dalton’s work has been published in numerous outlets, including his self-published zines Cuts (2024) and For The Birds (2020), both in New York City. His projects have also been featured in The Reservoir (Our New Jersey, 2018), Lola Magazine (Photographing Great Falls, 2018) in Berlin, Peperoni Books (The Great Falls, 2017) in Germany, Mossless Magazine (Mossless #3: The United States (2003–2013), 2014) in New York City, and aG_Halide Press (Long Lonely Swims, 2012) in Hartford, Connecticut.

Dalton received the McNeese Award for Photography in 2014. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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