Vladimir Frumin is an artist whose art reflects a connection with people from all walks of life, embedding their personalities and conditions into his works.

Vladimir received the “Excellence Award” in B&W Photography magazine in 2012 and 2014. In 2013, he received the B&W magazine “Merit Award”. In 2015 Vladimir was given the “Spotlight Award”, which included a published article on his “Russia” series. The “Everybody’s Fifth Ward” work was awarded the “Carol Crow Fellowship” by the Houston Center for Photography in 2015. The “I Am American” work was recognized with The Sony World Photography Award for Conceptual Art in 2016 and was exhibited in London at the Somerset House. In 2021 the prestigious magazine B&W has published a detailed review of the creative work of Vladimir Frumin.

A mystic and visionary whose work thrums with the disturbing resonance of a Joel-Peter Witkin or Eikoh Hosoe, the Russian-American photographer Frumin seeks connection and communion with people living on the fringes, and with empathy and understanding gives haunting visual form to their psychic landscapes. Of images like “Somewhere in Texas,” Vladimir says, “I’m welcoming the viewer into this magnificent illusion which we call life».