“The photographs of ‘Flyover Country’ were taken in the middle of the United States. This is the part of the country that many people sleep through while flying from one coast to the other. From thirty-thousand feet, the landscape is featureless and seems to go on forever. it is also the heartland of our country. It feeds us and it goes to war for us. Given the proper time to observe it up close, it is a place of profound beauty and the occasional surprise.”

- Ben Marcin, on his ongoing series ‘Flyover Country’

Ben Marcin creates abstract photographs that compartmentalize urban architecture into meditations on shape and form, pattern and geometry. His photographic essays explore ideas of home, memory, and the passing of time, reframing static snapshots of homesteads which stand as markers for larger forces at work in American culture. While many of his series vary in geographic location, the images share a pronounced sense of isolation. The composition and perspective of each photograph offers the viewer an objectivity to consider the beauty and histories present in such quiet moments.

Ben Marcin is a self-taught photographer living and working in Baltimore, MD. He has exhibited in prominent spaces both nationally and internationally, including. the Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA), the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), the Photographic Resource Center (Boston, MA), the Houston Center for Photography (Houston, TX), the Photo Center NW (Seattle, WA), PDNB Gallery (Dallas, TX), and Johalla Projects (Chicago, IL). 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 Belgium. Marcin’s photographic essays have received significant press coverage from The Washington Post, The Paris Review, Slate, Hyperallergic, and Wired Magazine, among others.