Oana M. Baković was born in Constanta, on the shores of the Black Sea, to a Croatian father and a Romanian mother. She is a fine art photographer with a predilection for the wild and endangered flora, peculiar plants, big bodies of water and motion. She started documenting her family life separately from her work as an advertising professional. Recently Baković focuses on art, with an interest in the natural world. She has refined her technique of using a flash with ambient light.