Dylan Mitro

Dylan Mitro (b. 1995) from Toronto, Canada; Dylan has been practicing forms of Queer storytelling through photography and filmmaking. First finding  their craft within Toronto’s LGBTQIA+ nightlife.

They found a deep interest in Queer Histories, researching stories within the LGTBQIA+ archives. Photography is a tool Dylan uses as an instrument to illustrate and observe contemporary queer life through a lens of fantasy and nostalgia.

About the project

While in residence, Dylan has been researching in the LGBTQIA+ archives of Berlin to focus on the historic night life and community spaces that were apart of Berlin through the 1980s and 1990s.

With an attempt to better understand the topography of Queer histories they discover within the archival ephemera. Dylan is revisiting this material by mapping out forgotten landscapes within their printmaking and photography works. Dylan aims to showcase the duality of the brighter emotions of Queer kinship, love and pleasure; in juxtaposition to deeper narratives of grief within the artwork.

Dylan was given the opportunity to realise the art project in Berlin by being the first recipient of the The Martha Cooper Scholarship for Documentary Photography, awarded by the Berliner Leben Foundation. We are very happy that Dylan is part of Fresh A.I.R. class #10.

Photos: Galya Feierman