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

November 30, 2020April 24, 2022

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, 2020April 24, 2022

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, 2020April 20, 2022

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, 2020April 20, 2022

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, 2020April 20, 2022

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, 2020April 20, 2022

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, 2020April 20, 2022

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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Beirut Explosion by Halima Al Haj Ali

August 12, 2020April 20, 2022

by Halima Al Haj Ali, Beirut, Lebanon 10.09.2020Cover photo by Faten Anbar I am photographing and documenting what happened in […]

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Have Social Media Ruined Photography? Not Exactly.

June 30, 2020April 20, 2022

by Cassandra Lamberti Photo by Halima Al Haj Ali The world’s oldest surviving photograph was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce […]

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Righting the Wrong: How Women Have Been Excluded from the Art World and the Importance of Sharing Their Stories

June 21, 2020April 20, 2022

by Cassandra Lamberti Photo by Arlette Bashizi When you open a book, inside there are words brimming with knowledge, history […]

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Why does femLENS focus on women and girls?
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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  • Who Doesn’t Love a Challenge? — Inside the New Issue of We See Magazine
  • Who Gets to Tell the Story? A Decade of Women Behind the Camera
  • femLENS Receives UN ECOSOC Special Consultative Status: What It Means and Why It Matters
  • WeLens Project Update: Stories, Tools, and Shared Action to End GBV
  • Redefining Representation: Women, the Internet, and the Power of Digital Expression
  • Power of Print Media: Why femLENS Still Publishes in Print
  • From Page to Practice: How to Use femLENS Resources in Your Community
  • Issue 10 of We See: Mapping the Landscape of Gender-Based Violence
  • The Making of We See Magazine: Behind the Stories, Layouts, and Late Nights
  • Art Therapy for Expression and Awareness: Two Methods from the Take pART! Booklet
  • Photovoice as a Tool for Participation: Stories from the AGENCY Project
  • The Artivism Toolkit – Creative Tools for Collective Action
  • We’re Back on the Blog: What femLENS Has Been Up To
  • AGENCY: Vote With Her!
  • Volunteer Partnerships Coordinator Role at femLENS

What is femLENS?

femLENS works to empower women to become social change agents themselves.

We encourage women to use their voice, to tell their stories and stories of their communities through visual storytelling, using just a mobile phone camera or other easily available alternatives.

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