Ulla Lemberg

“It is on my 12-year-old birthday that I get my first camera from my mother Alice and father Johan. After a couple of years with my camera in constant company, I am completely engrossed in "freezing" what I see and experience. I decide that my profession will be a photographer.

In the mid-1960s, Ulla Lemberg began studying photography at Christer Strömholm's legendary photography school in Stockholm. With experience from some of the largest newspapers , she was employed by Aftonbladet in 1970, as the first female photographer. She worked there until 1984 and since then she has worked as a freelance filmmaker and photographer with the whole world as her field of work.

It was in London in April 1977 that Ulla Lemberg was exclusively invited to photograph the punk band Sex Pistols' two front figures Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten. Their small, dilapidated house on Denmark Street had two floors. Upstairs a small room with two beds, mattresses thrown on the floor. The downstairs was filled with instruments and amplifiers. Six Pistols had been boycotted by all record companies in England for months, and only appeared in secret at banned concerts. Lemberg describes the picture “Visiting shy Sid who trains at his base. A tired, brooding Johnny makes an effort to listen ”.

During the years 1984-2014, Ulla Lemberg has produced several exhibitions such as "Se Kvinnan" (See woman), "Kära Barn"(Dear Child) and "Jordens Salt" (the salt of the earth) as well as several documentaries, including "När Ingen Ser" (While nobody see) and "Vittnena" (Witness). Her work has thus been shown in 35 different countries. The most important exhibition according to here self is “Världens Kvinnor” (Women of the world) She has also written several books and was a contributor of the famous "Document" (1979) where Aftonbladet's female journalists questioned and described the male colleagues' sexism, alcoholism and sexual harassment. A forerunner to the global appeal #meetoo starting in 2017.

In 2011, Ulla Lemberg founded the global cultural foundation Change Attitude, which with culture as a tool works to touch people, and in that way help to create a world where sexualized violence against the world's children forever ceases to exist.