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Originally trained as a photojournalist, Mahr became a trainee press-photographer at the Cultural Department of the Hungarian News Agency and completed an apprenticeship with noted Hungarian photojournalists Endre Friedman and Gábor Pálfai. In 1972, she moved to London to study at the Polytechnic of Central London, where she began experimenting with photographic tableaux and photomontage techniques.\n\r\nMahr’s artistic practice is shaped by her family and its history. She incorporates found and cherished objects into her work to create highly tactile, mysterious and dreamlike photographs. The pictures feature totemic artifacts of Mahr’s childhood and periods of travel, yet address universal human concerns of belonging, loss, memory and identity.\r\n\n\nThe photographs in ‘Daughter of An Architect’ were made in homage to Mahr’s father, a Bauhaus educated architect and proponent of modernism. Inspired by her first digital camera, a Leica, as well as the modernist box that it came in, she began to photograph his professional instruments as they had often been left on his table.\r\n\r\nThe series act as a playful tribute to her father’s life. She notes:\n\n'His, was a life full of historical and personal challenges - times spent in Germany and Paris in the 1930s; more than a decade teaching architecture in Santiago de Chile in the 1940s and then designing a major new city in Hungary in the 1950s.\r\n\r\nA Bauhaus-educated architect, he brought me up to be modernist to the core and to be deeply interested in all things architectural. Although I could never live up to his expectations and become an architect myself, with his professional instruments (a family heirloom) and now with this perfect camera, I have at last made this tribute to him.\r\n\r\nWhen I was I child, these instruments were on his table - always to be respected and not to be touched. 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