Sara Zinelli was born in Italy in 1970 and moved to London (U.K.) in the early 90s. She became passionate about photography, spending hours in the darkroom printing her own black and white pictures, and her work was published in several magazines as well as included in group shows in London. The advent of digital photography and starting a family away from the city gradually put her creativity on hold, but the urge to do something creative again became stronger and stronger. When the pandemic struck, she discovered analogue collage as an incredibly therapeutic medium where she could integrate her own photography with new techniques. Always reticent to use social media, she eventually joined Instagram in January 2022 with the name @missedartbeats. Her work has been published several times in the Contemporary Collage Magazine and included in the book on Italian collagists 'Solo Collage' as well as other publications by the Italian publisher Psicografici. She has taken part to various group exhibitions and in July she received a Director's honorable mention for her entry for the 'Revisiting the family album' exhibition at the Centre for Fine Art Photography.
