Cristina Gualmini was born in Bologna (Italy). She started studying photography in 1990 thanks to her great passion for visual art. She attended many specialization courses (portrait, fashion, nude, wedding, development and printing in black and white) in Bologna, Milan and Brescia, Between 1993 and 1995 she gained professional experiences working as an assistant. Afterwards, she managed the photography studio and photo gallery 'Mascarella' in Bologna.

Between 1994 and 2020 she held many solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in Italy and online.
Finalist SIPA Siena International Photography Awards 2019.

Nature is the main theme of her photos
Her vision lives in the intimate of Nature. From Nature to photography, to another reality:
a virtual sum in which the image changes its original function and also changes its identity, towards a different, alchemical reality.