Daniel “Dusty” Albanese is the New York based photographer and filmmaker behind the website TheDustyRebel. Shaped by his background in anthropology, he has built a worldwide following documenting the more marginal aspects of the urban landscape, as well as controversial artworks, and political protests. In 2017, he began production on his first feature length documentary and book OUT IN THE STREETS, which explores the global Queer Street Art movement.

In 2013, he gave a series of lectures on street photography at Wheaton College as part of their Techpaths Lecture Series and the Evelyn Danzig Haas Visiting Artists Program. He has also been a reoccurring guest speaker for the City College of New York, as well as at Stanford University, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Adelphi University, and MoMA PS1. Daniel has been interviewed for several street art documentaries such as, Janz In the Moment; Stick To It; and 190 Bowery. 

Daniel’s photography has been exhibited globally, acquired by the International Center of Photography and the Leslie-Lohman Museum, and been prominently featured in several books, such as Banksy. You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat (4th edition); Post No Bills Poems by Robert Janz; Women of Resistance: Poems For A New Feminism; A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor; #ICPConcernedGlobal Images for Global Crisis.