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Born in 1989 into an artistic family in the Black Forest, Germany, Alma Haser is now based in South East England. She is known for her complex and meticulously constructed photographs, which are influenced by her creativity and her background in fine art. Alma creates striking work that catches the eye and captivates the mind, often calling in question the nature of what is real.
Expanding the dimensions of traditional photography, Alma takes her photographs further by using analogue techniques, such as inventive paper-folding, collage and mixed media to create layers of intrigue around her subjects; manipulating her photographs and blurring the distinctions between two-dimensional and three-dimensional imagery.
Since having children her work has evolved and adapted to the time constraints she now faces. The experience of Motherhood has become a daily source of inspiration, and has incorporated itself into her practice as well as inspiring one of her most recent bodies of work ‘Tired. Warrior. Defeated. In Love.’ Alma’s work often makes us question our sense of what is real, seeking to expose the pretend. Through the use of her unique paper collage layering and re-photographing techniques, Alma’s analogue process liberates the potential of paper and the human hand.
Alma has won many awards for her work, including Magenta Foundation's Bright Spark Award for her Cosmic Surgery series (also the basis of a successful self-published book project). Her piece The Ventriloquist won fourth prize for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery. Alma also won the PDN Photo Annual Award for her Eureka Effect series. Her work has been exhibited worldwide.
Born in 1989 into an artistic family in the Black Forest, Germany, Alma Haser is now based in South East England. She is known for her complex and meticulously constructed photographs, which are influenced by her creativity and her background in fine art. Alma creates striking work that catches the eye and captivates the mind, often calling in question the nature of what is real.
Expanding the dimensions of traditional photography, Alma takes her photographs further by using analogue techniques, such as inventive paper-folding, collage and mixed media to create layers of intrigue around her subjects; manipulating her photographs and blurring the distinctions between two-dimensional and three-dimensional imagery.
Since having children her work has evolved and adapted to the time constraints she now faces. The experience of Motherhood has become a daily source of inspiration, and has incorporated itself into her practice as well as inspiring one of her most recent bodies of work ‘Tired. Warrior. Defeated. In Love.’ Alma’s work often makes us question our sense of what is real, seeking to expose the pretend. Through the use of her unique paper collage layering and re-photographing techniques, Alma’s analogue process liberates the potential of paper and the human hand.
Alma has won many awards for her work, including Magenta Foundation's Bright Spark Award for her Cosmic Surgery series (also the basis of a successful self-published book project). Her piece The Ventriloquist won fourth prize for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery. Alma also won the PDN Photo Annual Award for her Eureka Effect series. Her work has been exhibited worldwide.