Tag: Ben Marcin

Photographer Ben Marcin has had a long legacy of considering architecture–his projects Last House Standing, The Camps and Out West reflect a variety of places we have called home. Tomorrow night, Ben opens the exhibition, Structures at the C. Grimaldis Gallery on view through December 23, 2017.  Structures features several projects with a new approach to looking at architecture: Museums, Grids, Walls, and Stairwells, all are abstract grids that “compartmentalize urban architecture into meditations on shape and form, pattern and geometry”. Following Ben’s characteristic typology style of documenting place, in which multiple photographs work together to provide a composite narrative, these portraits of structure “hone in on an array of details, cataloguing the foundational matter of buildings into compositions that transcend the nature of their subjects”.

Baltimore-based photographer Ben Marcin uncovers the illusive, hidden dwellings of Baltimore’s homeless in his series The Camps

“Photographer Ben Marcin was born in Augsburg, Germany which might explain his nod to creating typologies that have their roots in Bernd and Hilla Bechers’ territory.  Ben has a number of interesting series, two featured today–Last House Standing and Camps, that  explore the ideas of shelter and home”