“Many of my photographic essays explore the idea of home and the passing of time. More recently, I have begun to explore the myriad structures of the urban core in Towers, Streets, Stairwells and Museums.”

- Ben Marcin

Ben Marcin’s abstract photographs compartmentalize urban architecture into meditations on shape and form, pattern and geometry. In the vein of the artist’s earlier photographic essays, “Last House Standing”, “The Camps”, and “Out West”, in which static snapshots of homesteads often stand as markers for larger forces at work in American culture, “Structures” evokes uncharacteristic emotional depth from the benign constructions which surround us. Expounding on Marcin’s characteristic documentary style in which multiple photographs work together to provide a composite narrative, these portraits hone in on an array of details, cataloguing the foundational matter of buildings into compositions that transcend the nature of their subjects.

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.