Holyday is an ongoing documentary project shot in film from October 2021 onwards. Every day has its own terror and holiness, and it is in identifying with the oddities and mundanities that comfort is found. After a year of nothingness that followed two close interactions with death, I began taking photos again, borrowing my grandfather's film camera. That year, I came out as non-binary and realised I was autistic. Holyday is as much a celebration of finding oneself in the small, patterned eccentricities of everyday life as it is a narrative of processing PTSD. It features a lot of mirrors and glasses, mirroring the curiously reflective nature of the project. It is photography, not as an answer or a question but as a place to go when the world is otherwise loud. It is my hope that Holyday creates a space in which others can feel, pause and reflect - visualising the curiosities and confrontations that so often form part of the masked processes of grief and becoming. My process is not extensive and rather relies on practised habits and curiosity. I carry my camera around wherever I go or rearrange domestic scenarios when the opportunity presents itself. I combine more traditional documentary work with whimsical or illusory storytelling - which embodies the way I experience the world around me.

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About
DMT is a predominantly self-taught multidisciplinary artist born in Pretoria, South Africa (1998). Initially known for their self-portrait and documentary photography, they also write poetry and create acrylic ink drawings, often with literary, sociological and metaphysical influences. Their work is subversive, painful and curious. DMT has been selected for slide shows (Too Tired Project), exhibitions and festivals (F-Stop Magazine, Float Photo Magazine, Praxis Gallery) and has been published in print and online (Unvael, Pearl Press, among others).