Lot 477 - Alma Haser - MS

Photographic print on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed COA
Curated by Gemma Padley

About
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 portraiture, which are influenced by her creativity and her background in fine art. Alma creates striking work that catches the eye and captivates the mind. Expanding the dimensions of traditional portrait photography, Alma takes her photographs further by using inventive paper-folding techniques, collage and mixed media to create layers of intrigue around her subjects; manipulating her portraits into futuristic paper sculptures 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. With that in mind, she uses techniques that are therapeutic and meditative, such as needle work and fabrics.

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 forth 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. Alma’s current projects include Within 15 Minutes, a series delving into her fascination with identical twins, they're genetics and how to distinguish them using jigsaw puzzles. She’s also been working on her Pseudo series; an exploration of what is real and what is manufactured, through using her unique paper collage layering and re-photographing techniques.