Ben Marcin is a self-taught photographer based in Baltimore, Maryland. His photographic essays examine home, memory, isolation, architecture, and the passage of time. Working through sustained series, Marcin photographs built structures and improvised sites as solitary presences: row houses, abandoned homes, temporary homeless camps, and architectural fragments that stand as markers of larger social, economic, and cultural forces.

His photobook The Holdouts brings together three long-term projects — solitary row houses in Baltimore, abandoned houses on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and temporary homeless camps — where buildings and encampments become witnesses to histories of abandonment, endurance, displacement, and erasure.

Marcin has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Delaware Art Museum; Griffin Museum of Photography; Center for Fine Art Photography; Photographic Resource Center; Houston Center for Photography; Photo Center NW; PDNB Gallery; and Johalla Projects. His work is included in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, New Britain Museum of American Art, and Le Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium. His photographic essays have received press coverage from publications including The Washington Post, The Paris Review, Slate, Hyperallergic, and Wired.