Cristina Ungureanu

I am a Romanian-born photographer and artist with a deep passion for capturing the quiet power of nature, the poetry of travel, and the emotion hidden in abstract scenes. My journey has taken me from the streets of Bucharest to the mountains and coasts of North Carolina, where I now live and create.
My creative journey has been shaped by resilience, reinvention, and the courage to begin again. After building a career in engineering, I eventually followed a different path into fitness and, ultimately, the arts. Along the way, I have also faced significant personal challenges, including battling cancer and an autoimmune disease, experiences that have deepened my appreciation for life, healing, and the beauty found in unexpected places.
Photography became my language, but it is now only one part of my creative world. In addition to photography, I create original artwork using watercolor, acrylics, monotype printing and mixed media collage. I love exploring the connections between color, texture, light, movement, and emotion, allowing each medium to offer a different way of seeing and expressing the world.
I’m drawn to places and moments that feel untouched, vast, or overlooked—where silence speaks and beauty reveals itself slowly. Eac...

Civil Engineering Institute, Bucharest