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The Secluded Homeless Camps of Baltimore

Photographer Ben Marcin found the people who live off the grid.
Ben Marcin

During the hunting season, Ben Marcin likes to hike on the edge of Baltimore's woodlands. That's where he discovered the city's secluded homeless camps; makeshift dwellings for locals who choose to live off the grid but close to roadways and shopping centers.

Marcin is no stranger to documenting solitude in the built environment. So he decided to find as many of these as possible, putting together a photo project called Camps. Similar to Last House Standing, in which the photographer captured lonely rowhouses around the Mid-Atlantic, Marcin shot the dwellings without the dwellers themselves.