Cosmic Surgery by Haser

TUESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER, 2012  /   COMMENTS [1]

Love these deconstructed and reconstructed faces by Alma Haser. I love the colours and the styling too (Don't you just want pick out half the clothes here?)

"Since leaving University in 2010, Alma has been working on self-portraits, being her own willing and available model. More recently she has started taking portraits of other people and is interested in making work that has a disquieting or disconcerting resonance.

Alma has always made things with her hands and now tries to find ways to combine her fine art background with photography. She has used origami in the past as props in her photographs, but in this series ‘Cosmic Surgery’ the origami has become an integral part of the final image.

The series has three distinct stages. Firstly Alma photographs her sitter, then prints multiple images of the subjects face and folds them into a complicated origami modular construction, which then gets placed back onto the original face of the portrait. Finally the whole thing is re-photographed.