In Conversation with Mara Magyarosi-Laytner

A Visual Reflection of the Transformative WomanIn Conversation with Mara Magyarosi-Laytner

Join us for a special conversation with experimental photographer Mara Magyarosi-Laytner as she chats with us about exploration and transformation through her work, The Untended Garden.

The Untended Garden is a visual reflection of the coming of age of women viewed through the cyclical nature of life in a garden. Featuring essays by Dr. Anita Bates and Sarah Ayers, this book explores the expectations of women as informed by society and culture, the transformation that women reach as they break through during their coming of age, and the resolution of self that comes from the acceptance of flaws and the reality of aging.

At the heart of this work, The Untended Garden is about the universality of transforming identity and gaining the wisdom to see flaws as strengths.
About the Author

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 and Savannah College of Art and Design, she is an artist, educator, and curator in the Detroit area. The artist and her work have been shown in many spaces across the United States, such as the Griffin Museum of Photography, and internationally, including the ScotiaBank CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto, Canada, and exhibitions in Italy, France, and Hungary. Mara's artistic and curatorial projects have been featured in multiple articles and periodicals, including Complex, Float Magazine, Fraction Magazine, Detroit Metro Times, The Hand Magazine, and Aeonian Magazine. As a curatorial focus, Mara co-founded and is the Co-Executive Director of NOVA24 | Photo + Film Festival, an international photography + film festival located in Detroit, Michigan. The festival launched in July 2024 featuring over 70 artists with 35 events at eighteen locations in the Detroit Metropolitan area.

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