The Root of Female Erasure from Storytelling
Text by Mary Ellen Dowd Illustration by Magdalena Xochitl Burtnik Urueta When referencing Greco-Roman storytelling, most minds immediately produce the […]
Human rights are women’s rights?
by Emily Chai and Jekaterina Saveljeva “Women’s rights are human rights.” We see these words on banners at protests and […]
Best of femLENS Photography 2020
femLENS presents the top photographs from our 2020 documentary photography workshop participants. femLENS ran four series of workshops in 2020. […]
How to get a grant for your new non-profit association
By Cassandra Lamberti Receiving a grant is a colossal step in growing your NGO. An NGO is a non-governmental organisation. […]
Is ‘Tolerance’ Worth Celebrating?
Text by Jessica Couloute International Day of Tolerance was created in 1996 as follow-up to the Year of Tolerance, which […]
Your Next Photo Project – Your Community
by Cassandra Lamberti Photo by Darina Shuparskaia Photographers and artists alike are all too familiar with the feeling of being […]
Beauty is a Myth. Visual Representation is Real.
by Jessica Couloute Photo by Eva Drewa Helen of Troy, infamously known as “the face that launched a thousand ships”, […]
Art and Healing
by Cassandra Lamberti Illustration by Ludovic Pujol “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail […]
Visual Literacy is Empowerment
by Jessica Couloute On International Women’s Day in 2016, at the Let Girls Learn event, Michelle Obama illustrated the power […]
Happy 5 year anniversary femLENS!
A few days ago an ex-colleague of mine had posted a photograph of the number 5 on his social media […]