Alma Haser

St Leonards-on-sea, United Kingdom

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.

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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."

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"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different."

David Hockney
in conversation with Paul Joyce.
1988