Kristina Drobny Bond was born on January 30, 1980. At an early age she took an interest in writing stories and drawing pictures. To her disappointment, her ability to render real life subject matter was a skill never to be attained. So, when she first picked up a camera in high school, she realized this was the tool to facilitate the transformation of words into visual imagery. She immediately took to photographing people, utilizing their unique traits as the key in formulating her narratives.

Kristina is guided by a keen sense of humor and positive outlook on life. Her influences are mainly writers, such as Tom Robbins, Ayn Rand, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kurt Vonnegut, and Isabel Allende. She gathers insight and inspiration from the variation of talent and subject matter each author provides. She enjoys the trivialities of day-to-day life and makes this her focus when choosing a subject matter to photograph. Kristina believes there is always a good story to tell, one just has to discover the right wording and add the appropriate enthusiasm to make it interesting.

Kristina graduated from Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia in May 2002 with a BFA in photography and received the title of McMurran Scholar, the highest achievement to be attained at that school. She then went on to the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia with a combined merit and portfolio fellowship and graduated in May 2005 with an MFA in photography. She currently resides in Winooski, Vermont.