Alma Haser

works and lives in St Leonard’s (UK)

About Alma Haser

Born in 1989 into an artistic family in the Black Forest, Germany, Alma Haser is a contemporary photographer and visual artist now based in South‑East England.
She is widely known for her highly constructed and meticulously crafted portraits, shaped by her fine‑arts background and her distinctive creative imagination. Her work consistently challenges the boundaries of reality, exploring new ways of seeing and interpreting identity.

Alma Haser’s Photographic Approach

Expanding the possibilities of traditional portraiture, Alma Haser transforms her photographs into paper sculptures, blurring the line between two‑dimensional and three‑dimensional forms.
Through inventive paper folding, collage, origami and mixed‑media processes, she creates multilayered images filled with mystery and depth.

Her practice invites viewers to question perception, representation and the construction of identity. In previous series, she explored these themes through unique techniques of layering, re‑photographing and reassembling paper collages, resulting in visually striking and often surreal portraits.

Exhibitions

Alma Haser’s work has been showcased in numerous exhibitions around the world.

Key exhibitions and awards

  • 2013: wins the Bright Spark Award from the Magenta Foundation for her series Cosmic Surgery.

  • 2016: exhibits Cosmic Surgery at De Soto Gallery (Los Angeles) and at The Photographers’ Gallery (London).
    That same year, she receives the PDN Photo Annual Award for her series Eureka Effect.

  • 2019: solo exhibition at 7 Trinity Gallery in Hastings with Cosmic Surgery and Within 15 Minutes. Cosmic Surgery is also shown at SPAO Gallery (Canada).

  • 2025: The Photographers’ Gallery presents her series Everything Has an End, Only the Sausage Has Two.

  • 2026 : Family Stories at Hangar presents her series Everything Has an End, Only the Sausage Has Two.

Her work continues to appear in major galleries, festivals and institutions across Europe and North America.

Art Book Publications

Alongside her exhibitions, Alma Haser self‑published Cosmic Surgery in 2015 in a very limited edition of 10 copies.
A second, expanded edition of 500 copies was released in 2016, featuring:

  • two pop‑up pages,

  • a hand‑folded origami element,

  • three additional booklets with texts and illustrations.

A special edition of 50 copies also includes an audio cassette featuring Subliminal Sound Pulses, composed by Simon James with a text by Piers Bizony.

Available work