“Six years ago I became a mother and since then I’ve been trying to understand and unravel the complexities of motherhood. In this ongoing series on I explore what it means to be a mother, what a mothers role is in the early years, and how to convey the large spectrum of feeling involved. I started by visiting mothers in their homes and photographing them with their children. I then print the photographs onto fabric and take them back to the mother and child to interact with. It becomes performative, much like motherhood.”
Born in 1989 into an artistic family in the Black Forest, Germany, Alma Haser is now based in South East 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, she 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 and blurring the distinctions between two-dimensional and three-dimensional imagery. Alma has won many awards for her work, including Magenta Foundation’s Bright Spark Award in 2013 for her Cosmic Surgery series (also the basis of a successful self-published book project). Her piece The Ventriloquist was shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in 2012. She also won the PDN Photo Annual Award in 2016 for her Eureka Effect series. Her work has been exhibited worldwide.
Artwork: Breadsticks, milk and a mother unconditional love