Posted on 02/21/2014 2:25:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The road most traveled: Most of the settlements Marcin photographed were by waterways, railway tracks, Walmarts, gas stations and liquor stores. (Daily Mail)
As America suffers through its worse recovery on record, a homeless camp has cropped up on the outskirts of Baltimore.
Daily Mail reported:
A sheet of plastic laid over a clothesline. A mini-fortress of milk crates stacked under a tree. A thin mattress on a flimsy crate lying in a dark tunnel.
On the edge of Baltimore’s woodlands, dozens of the city’s transients live in makeshift homes which they consider safer than homeless shelters.
Photographer Ben Marcin has captured some of the shanties in his thought-provoking photo essay, ‘The Camps’, documenting the struggle, loneliness and ingenuity of Maryland’s people of the woods.
Similar to his Last House Standing series which captured lonely rowhouses around the Mid-Atlantic, Marcin shot the shanties around Baltimore without their inhabitants to add to the ‘mystery’.
Marcin said he first stumbled upon the homeless dwellings as he hiked through the woods bordering the city during hunting season.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Doh, “you’re” not “your”
Bread and circuses replaced by cell phones and food stamps.
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Well said.
Those were good times...
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