Carmen Dobre-Hametner (b. 1978) lives and works in Munich, Germany. Her academic training took place at the National University of Arts in Bucharest (BFA in Photography and Video Art) and Leiden University, NL (Master of Photographic Studies). She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Arts in Bucharest with a research project on the Furry community. In 2010 she won the national selection for the Henkel Art Award for Central and Eastern Europe. She was nominated for the Essl Art Award and the Celeste Prize in 2013. She participated in artistic residencies at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Paris, the Romanian Cultural Institute in London and the Fotonow Foundation in Plymouth, UK.

The following are among her most important exhibitions: Alien and Familiar, Galerie Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, 2013; Celeste Prize, ex-Bibli, Rome, 2013; Furries, Galerie Rue de l'Exposition, Paris, 2011; Body-Art-Society, Galerie Oudin, Paris, 2011; Furbook, La Cantine, Paris, 2010. In 2012, Carmen Dobre-Hametner published the photo book Furries. Enacting Animal Anthropomorphism at the University of Plymouth Press.