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. In Marcin’s The Camps, where he documents houseless encampments found in and around Baltimore, the composition and perspective of each photograph offer the viewer an objectivity to consider the 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.