Together with a partner, the merchant and photographer Siegmund Labisch, also from the Posen area, he founded the photo studio Zander & Labisch-Illustrations-Photographen in Berlin on 19 June 1895,Berliner Handelsregister 91 HRA 13725 +40 which developed into the first German photo agency to produce and distribute up-to-date photographs for press organs in the spirit of photo journalism.Anna Rosemann: Zander & Labisch (1895–1939) – Auf den Spuren einer bekannten Fotoagentur. In Fotogeschichte, issue 144 (2017). At fotogeschichte.info, retrieved 4 September 2021.
