Who Doesn’t Love a Challenge? The raw reality of feminist resistance This third special issue of We See magazine strips away NGO platitudes to reveal the unvarnished truth of grassroots activism. Part of the WeLens project documenting gender-based violence across borders, this collection offers: Maggy Dago’s powerful photo essay on Togolese women creating economic solutions through collective…
It’s been a little while, but we’re back—and bursting with stories to share! It’s been a while! We last posted on this blog in 2023—but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy. Quite the opposite! At femLENS, we’ve spent the past yearс deepening our work, amplifying more women’s voices, and growing our global network of…
Friends, as we approach the New Year, and wrap up with the passing year, we’re happy to share the fourth issue of We See magazine that highlights a multitude of stories from what will be one of the most memorable years in recent history. You can order the mag at Blurb Books or wait for…
By Claire O’Brien I was in a drug store in Alexandria, Virginia, when I witnessed the unhappy moment in an immigrant woman’s experience. She was young, 19 years old, maybe. She stood at the register, wearing the store’s blue polo shirt, her hijab framing her pretty features. She spoke English with confidence as she assisted…
femLENS, the Estonia-based volunteer organisation dedicated to empowering women by teaching them documentary photography, announced the publication of the We See magazine’s third issue. Produced entirely in-house by a team of volunteer writers, editors and designers, We See magazine highlights the creative work of women who do not have professional photography training but instead have…
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”…
The femLENS team has organised the first-ever fundraising activity, “Yalla Bake”, a bake sale in the Thomson Reuters office in Gdynia, Poland. The money raised will go towards printing “We See” magazine, the first international women-only documentary photography magazine. The magazine highlights works of women living in Ireland, Poland and Lebanon, who do not have a…
This article was written for “We See”, the first women-only documentary photography magazine produced by femLENS and published this year on International Women’s Day. by Bogdan-Sorin Popescu, femLENS Director of Communications Documentary photography tends to be associated with the image painted by glossy-format magazines like National Geographic or Time, which contain outsiders’ accounts of costly…
Interview with the Founder and Workshop Facilitator of femLENS by Rita Plantera, former femLENS Chief of Growth Jekaterina Saveljeva is a photographer, editor and the founder of femLENS and workshop facilitator. We asked her to introduce us to femLENS and its vision. March 2018. You founded femLENS in 2015. How did you come up with…
Press Release (Gdynia, Poland, March 8, 2018) This International Women’s Day marks the launch of We See, a biannual women-only documentary photography magazine, edited independently by Estonian-based NGO femLENS. This is not to celebrate women’s achievements but, rather, to encourage women to become change agents themselves while struggling for gender equality, and disrupting gender-stereotypes in cultural…