DMITRI is a photographer, poet of the weird, and writer, living on Kaurna country. His poetry and prose have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Penumbra and Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press), So It Goes (Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library), Spawn II (IFWG), Skull & Laurel Magazine (Tenebrous Press), and The Deadlands (Psychopomp). For a limited bibliography, see here.
In 2020, DMITRI was Highly Commended within the Literature category by the Global Undergraduate Awards. His essay was about metanarratives in Don DeLillo's White Noise.
Previously, DMITRI undertook postgraduate research studies on Ezra Pound and intercultural exchange. This has deeply affected his worldview, as well as his creative theory and practice.
DMITRI is currently working on a series titled "Forlorn" which investigates mortality, as a vanitas of the paradoxes inherent to the cycles of life and death. It incorporates landscape photography, still life photography, and macrolike photography of plants and animals.
Education
2017 - 2020
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), English Literature
University of Adelaide
DMITRI undertook an honours year where his thesis was entitled, "The Dialectic Between Reason and Its Other in Samuel Beckett's Trois romans." In 2021, DMITRI also briefly studied a PhD on Ezra Pound's Cantos and its links to intercultural and international poetics.
Late 2025
Photography Studies College
DMITRI took two courses at the Photography Studies College, located in Narrm (Melbourne, Victoria). He received two High Distinctions (86% and 94%)!
2026 - ongoing
Bachelor of Photography
RMIT
DMITRI is planning to study at RMIT for a Bachelor of Photography.