Listen first
The shape of the story comes from the people living it.
About Mara
I keep a camera close and the door open.
I’m a filmmaker and photographer interested in belonging — how it is built, borrowed, lost and found again. My work lives somewhere between documentary and family album.
I grew up in a house where everybody arrived through the kitchen. That may be why I’m drawn to back rooms, porches, workshops and anywhere people forget to perform for the camera.
How I work
Slowly, lightly, together.
Leave room
For weather, wrong turns, silence and the moment nobody planned.
Give it back
Photographs and films return to the communities that made them possible.
A few true things
- Based in Detroit, often elsewhere.
- Shoots digital, 35mm and Super 8.
- Always packs extra snacks.
- Available worldwide, especially by train.