Ben Marcin's Holdout Homes: America's Margins in Pictures
25d agovia The Guardian Photography

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Ben Marcin's long-running project photographs lone houses standing in otherwise cleared Baltimore blocks, alongside derelict homes and informal camps. The series builds a portrait of people living on the margins of American cities, using spare, frontal compositions that let the structures carry the weight of the stories.
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