Mary Defer Photography

Lakewood, Ohio-based experimental analog photographer. Mary Defer (she/her/hers) is a photographer living and working in Cleveland.

She grew up drawing and painting on a family farm, and discovered her love of photography at Kenyon College. Her work has been exhibited both regionally and nationally. In 2012, a book of her photography was included in the first-ever museum exhibition of print-on-demand photobooks at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Recently, her pinhole photographs were installed in a mural on Broadway Avenue in the Slavic Village neighborhood.