Mara Magyarosi-Laytner

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Mara Magyarosi-Laytner is a photographic artist who pairs multiple experimental photography methods to explore identity through a symbolic and poetic lens. A graduate of both College for Creative Studies (BFA | Photography, 2012) and Savannah College of Art and Design (MA | Arts Administration, 2016, MFA | Photography, 2022), she is an artist, educator, and curator in the Detroit area.

The artist and her work have been featured internationally, including in exhibitions and festivals in the United States, Canada, Italy, France, and Hungary. Mara's artistic and curatorial projects have been featured in multiple articles and periodicals, including Complex, Float Magazine, Detroit Metro Times, The Hand Magazine, and Aeonian Magazine. In 2022, her work from The Untended Garden was a Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist. Her first monograph, The Untended Garden was published by Starling Common Press in February 2024.

As a curatorial focus, Mara cofounded and is the co-executive director of NOVA24, an international photography + film festival located in Detroit, Michigan. The festival launched in July 2024 with 35 events at eighteen locations in the Detroit Metropolitan area.