Fruma's photography practice focuses on historical, experimental and hand-made processes, with an emphasis on cyanotype, collage and lumen works. Family life, womanhood, cultural history, and urban and natural environments are where she most often draws inspiration for making images.

 

Fruma is a member of several artist organizations locally in CT where she lives and regularly shows her work, including the Silvermine Guild of Artists, the Artists Collective of Westport, The Kerschner Gallery, The Bendheim Gallery, Carriage Barn Art Center, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Shoreline Arts Alliance and Rowayton Arts Center. She gives cyanotype workshops at her home studio in Bridgeport, CT and has taught photography to women in crisis at the Project Return home in Westport and to cancer survivors at The Creative Center in New York City. 

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Fruma’s work has been shown nationally at the SoHo Photo Gallery in NYC, the New York Center for Photographic Arts, the Griffin Museum of Photography, the Southeast Center for Photography, The Halide Project, Light ArtSpace Gallery, and was invited by curator David DeMelim to participate in “Behind the Lens,”  a show honoring contemporary female photographers at RICPA in February, 2023. In January 2024 Michael Kirchoff, editor-in-chief of Analog Forever Magazine, chose one of her lumen pieces for his Top Ten photographs of 2023, and a full portfolio spread of her Kahina project was featured in the August 2023 issue of DekUnu Arts Magazine. She was published in Issues #33 and #35 of The Hand Magazine, and self-published a book of her documentary travel photographs, "Synagogues Along the Danube," in 2019.

 

In 2022 Fruma won Honorable Mention in two categories of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award in Alternative Processes and Women Seen by Women, and, in 2023 was the Winner for a Single Image in the Alternative Processes category. Fruma is the recipient of three materials grants (2020, 2022, 2024) through the Drew Friedman Foundation in Westport. She completed an Artist Residency at the Weir Farm Historic Nature Preserve in Wilton, CT, in 2022.

 

Fruma was a member of the first graduating class to earn a BFA in photography at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem, Israel, and worked as a commercial photographer and photography teacher in Tel Aviv where she participated in several group shows. She returned to the U.S. to pursue a Master’s degree in Interactive Technology at NYU, which led to a great day job for 25+ years in digital marketing. Additional recent studies at ICP, Harvard Artists Extension, EXP22 Experimental Foto Festival, and Maine Media Workshops were with Brenton Hamilton, Anne Eder, Annette Golaz, Bridget Conn, Stig Marlon Weston, Marcy Palmer, and Rachelle Bussieres. Currently, she is working with cyanotype on paper and textile-based multi-media processes on a long-term project that engages with the lives and culture of Jewish, Muslim, and Berber women of North Africa.