Mari Mahr (1941)

Biography

Mari Mahr (born 1941) is a Hungarian-British photographer. She was born in Santiago, Chile where her Hungarian Jewish parents had fled during World War II. After the war, the family moved back to Budapest. Mahr was inspired to study journalism by Jean-Luc Godard's film À Bout de Souffle. She also became a trainee press photographer. In 1973 she moved to London and continued her photography studies at the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster). She has lived and worked in London ever since.