Christina Hasslinger was born and raised in San Diego, CA. She graduated from Yale with a BA in art with distinction in the major. In college she received the Creative and Performing Arts Award twice, in 2013 and 2014. She was given a Brooks Fellowship to attend a course at the Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts, the Tao of Photography. For the 15th edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards she was given an honorable mention for her Non-pro series in the children category. In 2021 she exhibited some photos in the juried show, “New Beginnings” at the San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center. She also had two photographs chosen for two juried shows at the Black Box Gallery, “Black and White: 2021” and "Framed: Shadow and Light." In 2021 she received a 3rd place award for her series in the children category, and an honorable mention for her series in the street photography category of the 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. Her photos have been featured in F-Stop Magazine's Parenting Issue in 2022, and her series was a finalist as a photo story in the Documentary Family Awards in Fall 2021.