Alex Gâlmeanu

During 2017–2020, he collaborated with the director Oana Giurgiu, as image director, for making the documentary film Spioni De Ocazie, produced by Libra Flim. The film premiered at the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF), organized in Cluj in June 2021.

In 2010, he curated Romania – 50 Years of Female History, an exhibition in which he gathered a selection of 50 images from various archives, female portraits, exhibited and organized by decades, as a celebration of Romanian femininity. The photographic series was exhibited in Constanța, Iași, Cluj and Timișoara. In the following year, he exhibited Subjective Portraits in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Gâlmeanu worked on a project named People I Know, and held his first solo exhibition in the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest in 2005. People I Know is a collection of portraits of Romanian personalities, including Ana Ularu, Oana Pellea, Vlad Ivanov, Johnny Răducanu, Cristian Chivu, Gyuri Pașcu and others. The People I Know series of images was later exhibited in Paris (2008), and in Toulouse (2010), organized by ICR France.

In 2003, Gâlmeanu started the Anastasia Project, a photo series in which Anastasia, a Romanian girl, comes to the artist's studio every October to make a portrait. The project is ongoing, through which Gâlmeanu documents the physical and emotional transformations that Anastasia goes through in her journey from child to woman.

Gâlmeanu began his professional photographic career in 1998. From 1999 to 2002, he worked as an employee of the Ringier Press Trust, becoming the principal photographer for the Ringier Magazine Division. He opened his own photo studio and his own company in 2002.

In 1997, Gâlmeanu began his studies at the Faculty of Art of Hyperion University, Film Department, but he could not complete it. Subsequently, between 2009 and 2012, he completed his university studies at the University of Art Bucharest, specializing in Photography and Computer Image Processing.

Alexandru Pompiliu Gâlmeanu (born October 29, 1978) is a Romanian photographer and image director. He started working in 1998, and has primarily focused on editorial, advertising, fashion or abstract photography.

Gâlmeanu was born on October 29, 1978, in Bucharest, Romania. At the age of 14, he started learning to photograph using the existing photographic equipment in his family's house, including a functional photo laboratory. A year later, in 1993, he published his first photograph, cover no. 3 of Salut magazine. From 1994 till 1997, he attended Colegiul Național Matei Basarab for his higher education, and also worked for the magazine of the "Matei Basarab" National College. In 1997 he had his first collaborations with the Romanian magazine market, working on several occasions for a local independent magazine called 2000 Plus.