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The Root of Female Erasure from Storytelling 

January 18, 2021January 21, 2021

Text by Mary Ellen Dowd Illustration by Magdalena Xochitl Burtnik Urueta When referencing Greco-Roman storytelling, most minds immediately produce the […]

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Human rights are women’s rights?

January 13, 2021January 26, 2021

by Emily Chai and Jekaterina Saveljeva “Women’s rights are human rights.” We see these words on banners at protests and […]

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Best of femLENS Photography 2020

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020

femLENS presents the top photographs from our 2020 documentary photography workshop participants. femLENS ran four series of workshops in 2020. […]

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How to get a grant for your new non-profit association

November 30, 2020December 31, 2020

By Cassandra Lamberti Receiving a grant is a colossal step in growing your NGO. An NGO is a non-governmental organisation. […]

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Is ‘Tolerance’ Worth Celebrating?

November 16, 2020December 31, 2020

Text by Jessica Couloute International Day of Tolerance was created in 1996 as follow-up to the Year of Tolerance, which […]

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Your Next Photo Project – Your Community

October 30, 2020December 31, 2020

by Cassandra Lamberti Photo by Darina Shuparskaia Photographers and artists alike are all too familiar with the feeling of being […]

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Beauty is a Myth. Visual Representation is Real.

October 15, 2020December 31, 2020

by Jessica Couloute Photo by Eva Drewa Helen of Troy, infamously known as “the face that launched a thousand ships”, […]

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Art and Healing

September 30, 2020December 31, 2020

by Cassandra Lamberti Illustration by Ludovic Pujol “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail […]

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Visual Literacy is Empowerment

September 8, 2020December 31, 2020

by Jessica Couloute On International Women’s Day in 2016, at the Let Girls Learn event, Michelle Obama illustrated the power […]

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Happy 5 year anniversary femLENS!

August 27, 2020August 28, 2020

A few days ago an ex-colleague of mine had posted a photograph of the number 5 on his social media […]

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Women and girls are still underrepresented in almost all areas of life. Photography as a storytelling tool shouldn’t be the domain of the privileged few. Technology today allows us to make that happen as so many people have access to a mobile phone with a camera. Read more

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  • The Root of Female Erasure from Storytelling 
  • Human rights are women’s rights?
  • Issue IV of We See Documentary Photography Magazine
  • Best of femLENS Photography 2020
  • How to get a grant for your new non-profit association
  • HER|visual|STORY Press Release
  • Is ‘Tolerance’ Worth Celebrating?
  • Your Next Photo Project – Your Community
  • Beauty is a Myth. Visual Representation is Real.
  • Art and Healing
  • Visual Literacy is Empowerment
  • femLENS Publishes First Book “Unlearning the Ordinary: through a lens for the commons*”
  • Happy 5 year anniversary femLENS!
  • Beirut Explosion by Halima Al Haj Ali
  • Have Social Media Ruined Photography? Not Exactly.

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We empower women to become social change agents themselves. femLENS can teach you to use visual storytelling to document your own life using just your mobile phone camera or other easily available alternatives.

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