When I saw the article in a Time Out Budapest a couple months ago, I tore it out for reference and decided I wanted to see the Vivien Maier photo exhibition at the Mai Mano House of Photography. I just managed to catch it on the last day last Saturday after my market shopping at Hunyadi ter. Described as a half-Hungarian "Mary Poppins-type" figure, Vivien Maier took photographs, mostly black & white in New York and Chicago, for 40 years while being a nanny for various families. She printed just 2000 of the more than 150000 snapshots she took. Various families she nannied for have found boxes of negatives stored in their attics, later collected and developed into an exhibition. Maier took some amazing pictures, and we could have stayed there for hours if there were more on show. While the exhibition has now closed in Budapest, many of those on display, as well as many more, can be viewed on her official website. The still active Maier died in 2009 after slipping on ice and hitting her head. She has left behind an amazing legacy of street photography through several decades, with a keen eye for interesting faces and unusual lighting brought out especially well through black & white film.