Alexander Markus Lembke
Alexander Markus Lembke is a professional photographer based in Hamburg, Germany. He works as a constant freelancer in the range of landscape photography, documentation and photo reportage. Specialised in the northern hemisphere he prefers working at temperature below zero.
As an independent photographer he pursues several longterm projects and is involved in different research programmes.
Also Alex worked from 2006 to 2012 as head of the department of photography at Faculty of Media at Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. In that time he supervised 120 student per annum within the scope of the regular curriculum. He also has international teaching experience by consistently teaching workshops at several universities abroad.
From October 2013 to September 2017 Alex was a professor of photography at btk Hamburg.
Current position
Independent Photography Professional, Researcher
2012
Member „German Society of Polar Research“
from 2006 till 2012
Head of the photography department at Faculty of Media at Bauhaus University Weimar
since 2011
Fellow of the Thematic Network on Communicating Arctic Research “SUBZERO”
Partner: GRID-Arendal (UN Dachorganisation, University of Lapland, University of Tampere, Ouluanka Research Station, Chung-Ang University Seoul)
Guide for Polarexpeditions, for GeoRG
since 2010
Associate of agency franzandfriends. Büro für Visuelle Kommunikation, Weimar (Germany)
since 2009
Represented by Freelens, The National Association of Journalist Reporters and Photographers
since 2007
Publisher and Editor in Chief, Loom photography magazine
since 2005 and prior
Freelance photographer
Member of the experimental prototyping atelier Mizubitchy
3 sat, ZDF, Voland & Quist Verlag, The New York Times, Globetrotter, Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH, Bauamt Erfurt, Vogue Deutschland, Softgrid Shanghai, Geografische Reisegesellschaft GeoRG, CVJM, Vattenfall Dänemark, North Atlantic Adventure Group, Moonharbour Records, Monster Movies GmbH
1999 to 2005
Studying Media Art & Design at Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Studying photography at K3 Institut, Malmö, Sweden
Diplom Wu Shu – Martial Arts China, (MFA-equivalent, focal point photography)
since 2013
Professor of photography at btk Hamburg
2006 to 2012
Head of the department of photography at Faculty of Media
at Bauhaus University Weimar, Teaching Position
In this position responsible to lead the education of 120 to 140 students
per year in the field of photography
since 2006
lecturer for more than 20 international Workshops
at TAIK University, Helsinki (Finland), TAMK, Tampere (Finland), Aalto University, Helsinki (Finland), European youth educational center Weimar (Germany), Pèlerinages Kunstfest Weimar (Germany)
2013
Saksalainen, joka keksi saunan (Der Deutsche, der die Sauna erfand), Helsinki (Finland), in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Finnland
2012
Saksalainen, joka keksi saunan (Der Deutsche, der die Sauna erfand),
Emil Gallery, Tampere (Finland), in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Finnland
2011
Die neue Welt der Sauna, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany
Idealtypische Darstellung von Wald und Wildniss, Huberhaus, Wernigerode, Germany
Zweizueins, Galerie Loris, Berlin, Germany, with Nina Röder
2010
Group exhibition Das Neue Bauhaus 2010, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany
Group exhibition Daegu Photobienale 2010: Seconds of life, Seoul, Korea
together with e.g. Peter Bialobrzeski and Walter Niedermayr
2009
Group exhibition Neue Fotografie aus Weimar, Galerie Jarmuschek & Partner, Berlin, Germany
2005 and prior
The Second View, Neufert Box, Gelmeroda, Deutschland, 2007
Exhibition and Performance The Re-Entry, Galerie Seiku, Malmö, Sweden, 2005
Aerial, Rönnen, Malmö, Sweden, 2004
The Catwalk Instinct, Exhibition and Shop, Weimar, Germany, 2011
Your True Color, Marke.6 Gallery, Neues Museum Weimar, Germany, 2010
Bauhaussauna, Performance and installation for the 90th anniversary
of the founding of the Bauhaus 2009, Weimar, Germany, 2009
Once in a while, gallery Eigenheim Weimar, Germany, 2007
