by Emily Cai The mission of femLENS is rooted in female empowerment and gender equality. Over the past years, femLENS has had the opportunity to work with women in countries such as Poland, Ireland, Ukraine, Lebanon, Germany, Spain, setting up photography workshops in order to help women tell their stories. As an organisation whose values…
This Monday 9th of March we are starting a series of documentary photography workshops with girls aged 17-23 and women aged 40+ in the town of Narva, Estonia – the hometown of femLENS founders Jekaterina Saveljeva and Maria Vesselko. You can read about Narva and its historic complexity that we hope will become visible to…
femLENS is running a series of documentary photography workshops in partnership with “Amal, Berlin!”. Amal Berlin is an Arabic, Farsi and German-language digital newspaper that covers local news in Berlin and Germany. They work primarily for and with refugees who are new in the city and can’t read local news in German. The platform reaches…
We invite you to celebrate the new year with femLENS in Berlin, look at photographs of our workshop participants, talk to the volunteers and have a drink! Exhibition opens at 20.00 at Utrechterstr 22, Wedding, Berlin. Hope to see you there!
By Claire O’Brien I was in a drug store in Alexandria, Virginia, when I witnessed the unhappy moment in an immigrant woman’s experience. She was young, 19 years old, maybe. She stood at the register, wearing the store’s blue polo shirt, her hijab framing her pretty features. She spoke English with confidence as she assisted…
femLENS, the Estonia-based volunteer organisation dedicated to empowering women by teaching them documentary photography, announced the publication of the We See magazine’s third issue. Produced entirely in-house by a team of volunteer writers, editors and designers, We See magazine highlights the creative work of women who do not have professional photography training but instead have…
femLENS presents the top photographs from our 2019 documentary photography workshop participants. femLENS ran three series of workshops in 2019 in Berlin, Germany, at Die Lernwerkstatt, the International Women Space (IWS) and part of the Art Despite Exclusion festival.
To wrap-up a year of workshops, femLENS opens a street exhibition in Berlin’s Alt-Treptow neighbourhood from October 25-29, 2019. The exhibition “From a Wom*n’s Point of View” brings together photographs taken by women from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds. Between March and July 2019, femLENS held a series of documentary photography workshops with women from…
Press Release Title: From a Wom*n’s Point of View: Empowering migrant women to tell their stories using mobile phone photography Berlin, Germany, October 16, 2019 For Immediate Release femLENS, the non-profit association aimed at empowering women through documentary photography, is proud to announce an upcoming public photo exhibition, “From a Wom*n’s Point of View”, inviting…
femLENS, the non-profit association aimed at empowering women through documentary photography, is presenting work done in partnership with the International Women* Space in Berlin between May and June 2019, and during the Kunst trotz(t) Ausgrenzung (Art despite Exclusion) festival in July 2019. femLENS held a series of workshops in which women from diverse backgrounds learned…