About / Exhibitions
Born in 1989 into an artistic family in the Black Forest, Germany, Alma Haser is now based in SouthEast 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 into bewildering paper sculptures and blurring the distinctions between two-dimensional and three-dimensional imagery. Alma’s work often makes us question our sense of what is real, seeking to expose the unreal, creating images that make us question what we are seeing. In her past series Pseudo Alma explores what is real and what is manufactured, through using her unique paper collage layering and re-photographing techniques.
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 SouthEast 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 into bewildering paper sculptures and blurring the distinctions between two-dimensional and three-dimensional imagery. Alma’s work often makes us question our sense of what is real, seeking to expose the unreal, creating images that make us question what we are seeing. In her past series Pseudo Alma explores what is real and what is manufactured, through using her unique paper collage layering and re-photographing techniques.
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.
Exhibitions
2025
Everything Has an End, Only the Sausage Has Two, The Photographers Gallery, London
2019
Cosmic Surgery, The SPAO Gallery, Canada
2017
Within 15 Minuets and Cosmic Surgery, 7 Trinity Gallery, Hastings
2016
Cosmic Surgery, De Soto Gallery, L.A.
Cosmic Surgery, Print Sales Gallery, The Photographers' Gallery, London
2025
Everything Has an End, Only the Sausage Has Two, The Photographers Gallery, London
2019
Cosmic Surgery, The SPAO Gallery, Canada
2017
Within 15 Minuets and Cosmic Surgery, 7 Trinity Gallery, Hastings
2016
Cosmic Surgery, De Soto Gallery, L.A.
Cosmic Surgery, Print Sales Gallery, The Photographers' Gallery, London
2026
Phantom Tigers And Parallel Papers, The Weird Show
Hangar, PhotoBrussels Festival, Belgium
2025
Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2024
OFF Bratislava, PERSONA INCOGNITA, Bratislava, Slovakia
The Weird Ones: New Narratives in Contemporary Collage,
Municipal Hall of La Pasión, Valladolid, Spain
2023
Altered Group show, Candela Gallery, Richmond USA
2021
Cosmic Surgery, Face Control, Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
Cosmic Surgery, Portrait(s), Collectif Fetart, Paris, France
2020
Select pieces, The Age of Collage, Curve Gallery, Berlin
2019
Pseudo, Belfast Photo Festival, Ireland
Cosmic Surgery, Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, Switzerland
Pseudo and Within 15 Minuets, Photo London
2018
Circulation(s) Festival, Centquatre, Paris
2017
Body Image, NOW Gallery, Greenwich, London
Paper, CODA Museum, Apledoorn, Netherlands
Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery, London
AIPAD, De Soto Gallery/The Photographers Gallery, New York
2016
PULSE Miami Beach, De Soto Gallery, Miami
UNSEEN, The Photographers Gallery, Amsterdam
2015
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts Gallery, Texas
Dear Sylvia, Australia Centre of Photography, Paddington, Australia
2014
Flash Forward Festival, Fairmont Battery Wharf, Boston
uP, The Foundation [taf], Athens, Greece
2013
Magenta Foundation Awards, Neubacher Shor Contemporary, Toronto
2012
MAKE/SHIFT, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London
f/22, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin
Foto8 Summer Show, Foto8 Gallery, London
2011
Guernsey Photography Festival, Tim Andrews Portrait Project, Guernsey
2023
Shortlisted for Belfast Photo Festival Open
2019
Shortlisted for Arles Open Wall, BJP, Arles, France
2017
Best in Book, 'Invisible Wounds,' Creative Review Photo Annual
2016
Winner, 'Eureka Effect', PDN Photo Annual
2015
Honourable Mention, 'Eureka Effect' IPA Awards
First Prize, 'The Eureka Effect' PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris
'Cosmic Surgery' Book Nominated for LUMA Dummy Book Awards Arles
2014
Nominated as the 'One to Watch' 2014 by D&AD
2013
Winner, 'Cosmic Surgery', Magenta Foundation 'Bright Spark' Award
2012
Nominated for the Terry O'Neil TAG Award
Forth Prize Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Award
Third Prize People Choice, Foto8 Summer Show
2016
Self-Published 'Cosmic Surgery' (edition of 600)
2015
Self-Published Dummy Edition of 'Cosmic Surgery'
(pop-up photo book, edition of 10)