The Holdouts - Hardcover

by Ben Marcin (Author)

The Holdouts is the debut photobook by American photographer Ben Marcin. It offers a unique view of the city of Baltimore and its surrounding areas through three very different sets of homes.

We are taken to marginalized homes and houses, some as old as 250 years, others just months old, found in and around Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Marcin shows us solo row houses in the inner city that somehow survived the wrecking ball; abandoned houses on the Eastern Shore where the last generations of families either passed away or moved on after decades of farming the land; and temporary homeless camps in the city, none of which have ever survived for more than a year.

Author Biography

Ben Marcin is a photographer based in Baltimore, Maryland. Many of Marcin's photographic essays explore the idea of home and the passing of time and have taken him across the world--but his latest work is about his home state, which he shines a lens on for the first time. Other projects such as Last House Standing and The Camps have received wide press both nationally and abroad (The Washington Post, The Paris Review, Slate, Wired magazine). His work has been shown at a number of national galleries and venues and is included in several important collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the New Britain Museum of Art and Le Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium. He is currently represented by C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore.