Design
A Photo Project Ponders Skyscrapers Without a Skyline
An artist obsessed with capturing lonesome structures takes on tall, urban buildings.
Viewed as part of a skyline, a typical skyscraper is just one of many towers adding life to a city. But, to paraphrase a zen koan, what does a tall building mean when there's nothing else around it?
Ben Marcin, a photographer fascinated by the isolation of subjects we expect to see in clusters, presents the answer in his latest project, called "Towers." In it, Marcin picks out the middle section of individual tall buildings and presents them against a stark, white background. The results wipe the humanity right out of the structures.