If Bill Brandt had made animals one of his pre occupations, those photographs would likely claim spiritual kinship with the stunning noir steeped animal portraits of Giacomo Brunelli. As Steven A. Heller notes in his profile, Brunelli has radically transformed our view of and connection to our fellow inhabitants.

A mystic and visionary artist whose work thrums with the disturbing resonance of a Joel-Peter Witkin or Eikoh Hosoe, Russian-American photographer Vladimir Frumin seeks connec tion and communion with people living on the fringes, and with empathy and understanding gives haunting visual form to their physical and psychic landscapes.