By Rebecca Ambrose A lot of people assume the right to housing nowadays is a given part of life, but many societies, including in the West, still demonstrate inequality between genders in terms of access to housing, regardless of the rights given. Women’s right to housing internationally is mixed, and has a long and spotted…
On 24 August, 2022, femLENS founder Jekaterina Saveljeva spoke to Becky Bissong on gender issues, photography and the pandemic visualised on CRTV national radio station. Listen to the interview below!
Welcome to femLENS’ Photography Industry Recap! The Recap is intended to give you a bi-monthly update on exhibitions, the most relevant dialogues about the ethics of photography, introduce you to interesting articles, and finally, bring some photographic inspiration from the industry right to you. This month, femLENS is producing a Zine – Women at Work!…
Welcome to femLENS’ August Photography Industry Recap! The Recap is intended to give you a bi-monthly update on exhibitions, the most relevant dialogues about the ethics of photography, introduce you to interesting articles, and finally, bring some photographic inspiration from the industry right to you. It aims to be accessible, global, relevant and useful –…
Today is seven years since the first femLENS workshop in Balgaddy, Dublin, Ireland! In 2015, femLENS founder and workshop facilitator, Jekaterina Saveljeva, had the vision to diversify the field of photography and empower women to tell their stories through documentary photography. The objective of femLENS was, and remains to this day, to help women believe…
Welcome to femLENS’ end-of-July Photography Industry Recap! The Recap is intended to give you a bi-monthly update on exhibitions, the most relevant dialogues about the ethics of photography, introduce you to interesting articles, and finally, bring some photographic inspiration from the industry right to you. It aims to be accessible, global, relevant and useful –…
Welcome to femLENS’ July Photography Industry Recap! The Recap is intended to give you a bi-monthly update on exhibitions, the most relevant dialogues about the ethics of photography, introduce you to interesting articles, and finally, bring some photographic inspiration from the industry right to you. It aims to be accessible, global, relevant and useful –…
We are grateful for this feature by Tracy Piper-Wright for the ninth issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture focusing on Photography and Resistance. Read the article here about femLENS and our work, and the work of Jo Spence and Joan Solomon (What Can a Woman Do with A Camera?) in the larger context of…
Welcome to femLENS’ second June Photography Industry Recap! The Recap is intended to give you a bi-monthly update on exhibitions, the most relevant dialogues about the ethics of photography, introduce you to interesting articles, and finally, bring some photographic inspiration from the industry right to you. It aims to be accessible, global, relevant and useful…
By Aishling Heffernan femLENS has completed its first Community Survey, which aimed to examine the needs, challenges and ambitions of women and non-binary documentary photographers. The inspiration for this survey came from noticing the lack of accurate research into the lives and challenges of female and non-binary documentary photographers. For example, an Industry benchmark for…