Alma Haser

St Leonards-on-sea, United Kingdom

@almahaser

Alma Haser portrait

Bio

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.

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.

Statement

Expanding the dimensions of traditional photography, I take my photographs further by using analogue techniques

such as inventive paper-folding, collage, and mixed media to create layers of intrigue around my subjectsm manipulating my photographs into bewildering paper sculptures, blurring the distinctions between two-dimensional and three-dimensional imagery. 

My work often invites viewers to question their sense of what is real, as I seek to expose the unreal and create images that challenge perception. In my past series Pseudo, I explored the tension between what is real and what is manufactured through my distinctive approach of paper collage layering and re-photographing techniques.

Limited Edition Prints

In The Palm Of My Hand
In The Palm Of My Hand Available in 4 sizes
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In the artist's own words

"This series playfully explores the symbolism of hands as a way to define what is real. In dreams, our subconscious often improvises details based on memory and expectation, leading to surreal or distorted perceptions. One common method for distinguishing dreams from waking life is by looking at our hands—something that often appears strange or inconsistent in dreams. By regularly examining the details of your hands while awake, you build a habit that can carry over into your dreams. When this happens, it can trigger the realisation that you’re dreaming, giving you the ability to consciously influence and navigate the dream world.”
A.H.
Too Many Fingers
Too Many Fingers Available in 4 sizes
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The Pointing Finger
The Pointing Finger Available in 4 sizes
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Original Artworks

Curatorial note

In Alma Haser's new series, the body becomes both subject and surface. Working with her own photographs, she treats the printed image as a second skin—folding, layering, and shaping paper directly over her face and body until the boundary between image and flesh begins to blur. Shadows and reflections appear like echoes, fragments of self that resist being fixed in two or three dimensions.

What we see is not a portrait but a dialogue between presence and projection. Haser uses paper as a material that records contact, that carries the trace of light and touch at once. The results oscillate between sculpture and photograph, illusion and document, a continuous negotiation of space and perception.

Among the artists in this exhibition, Haser is perhaps the one who most explicitly embodies The Weird Show's central question: why is this a collage? Her work stretches the definition of the medium until it almost dissolves, showing that collage is not defined by its tools but by its attitude—a willingness to inhabit the uncertain, to cross borders, to stay in the weird territory where image and matter converge.

Missing Hand
Missing Hand 13 x 16.2 in
Archival pigment print layered
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"Why do I have to translate this stuff into painting? Why can’t these photographs just exist as art?"

John Baldessari
in conversation with Aaron Schuman.
2009