Sara Sallam is an Egyptian multidisciplinary artist, designer, and visual researcher currently based in the Netherlands. She works across media and platforms, using photography, video, creative writing, archival material, books, and interfaces. She holds a BA in Media Design from the German University in Cairo, an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from London College of Communication supported by the UAL Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship, and an MA in Film and Photographic Studies from Leiden University. Themes of absence, loss, and longing run throughout her projects, in which she explores ways of visualising things we cannot see and people we cannot meet. Sara has exhibited internationally and was awarded grants from Magnum Foundation, AFAC, Prince Claus Fund, and Mophradat. Her work was shortlisted in Lang-Taylor Prize, Kassel Photobook Award, and Magnum Foundation Fund. In 2020, Sara began self-publishing her work in the form of hand-bound photobooks.