Alma Haser

Alma Haser (born 1989) is a German-born portrait photographer living in the United Kingdom. She uses "paper-folding techniques, collage and mixed media to create layers . . . blurring the distinctions between two-dimensional and three-dimensional imagery." Her father is a painter and sculptor, and her mother is a sculptor.

She studied photography at Nottingham Trent University (where she also took up origami), graduating in 2010.

Haser's Cosmic Surgery portrait series refers to cosmetic surgery, with sitters' faces altered using origami. The title was inspired by her having dyslexia and mixing the words up. As described in Wired:

Her Pseudo series "plays with reality, layering and manipulating images of plants and flowers in a comment about the roots of fake news". Other work includes Invisible Wounds, a project with Nick Ballon for Save the Children; and cover artwork for Clark's 2013 album Feast/Beast and 2017 album Death Peak.

Personal life , Haser lived in Hastings on the south east coast of England. Cosmic Surgery Special Edition Box Set. Self-published, 2016. Includes an audio cassette with a musical piece to accompany the project—Subliminal Sound Pulses composed by Simon James. With text by Piers Bizony. Edition of 50 copies.

Awards 2012: Fourth prize, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, London, for a photograph from The Ventriloquists