Berlin, Germany— August 3, 2019 For Immediate Release August marks the four years that nonprofit organization femLENS has empowered women to tell their stories through documentary photography. Staff, volunteers, board members, recent workshop participants and supporters of femLENS will celebrate this milestone with an informal gathering at Oblomov in Berlin on 14 August. The venue…
by Kerriann Marden Life in the Gaza Strip is hard and getting harder. A recent United Nations report predicts that conditions there will be “unliveable” by the year 2020, just five months away. In male-dominated Gaza, where no one has enough, females have even less: less freedom of movement, less economic opportunity, less political power,…
By Barbara Filaih The Gaza Strip, dubbed the biggest open-air prison in the world, has been under Israeli occupation since 2007. The longstanding restrictions on the movement of people and goods to and from the Gaza Strip have undermined the living conditions of about two million Palestinians. Most of these restrictions, which were originally imposed…
By Barbara Filaih World Refugee Day is observed by 100 countries to raise awareness of the struggles faced by refugees around the world. According to the UNHCR Statistics in 2018, 70.8 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide because of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. There were staggering 37,000 new displacements every day in…
In August 2019 it will be 4 years since femLENS started running its workshops. In this time we have done 9 workshops in 6 countries with more than 40 women. Below are some photographs from the very first to the latest workshop we’ve done. We are fundraising money to be able to do our next…
Wonder how the money raised through GlobalGiving will be spent? Here is a chart breaking down the spending categories. We want to keep this process as transparent and trustworthy as possible. Many thanks to all those who have already contributed!
The big day we have been preparing for is here! The Challenge Today’s cultural and media representation of women is not inclusive and diverse. Men and women are often portrayed in stereotypical ways, and traditional roles in society are emphasised. This misrepresentation and its implications need to change before political, economic, and social equality of…
Thanks to the help from the community space Die Lernwerkstatt, femLENS’ first Berlin workshop happened on March 6th. Our Berlin group is a very diverse one! Five women from four different countries and various professions attended: two from Mexico, one from Columbia, one from Syria and one from Austria; a mother, a chef, a singer,…
In October 2018 femLENS ran a series of documentary photography workshops in the city of Zhytomy, Ukraine. According to the research commissioned by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) mission in Ukraine and conducted by GfK Ukraine in 2015, over 230,000 Ukrainians have become victims of human trafficking since 1991. The cited report shows that…
It’s been a very busy year for femLENS and we’re happy to present you the second issue of the women-only documentary photography magazine We See. This issue focuses on women’s rights, migration and human trafficking, as well as many photographs of women living in rural Spain and Ukraine. There is also a new “Featured Photographer”…