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…
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…
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…
Last Friday, 13 August, femLENS launched the five months project – Narva mediaLAB. The lab is aimed at different groups of people – youths and families, the elderly, as well as bloggers and media professionals. Over the next five months we will hold regular meetings and cover topics such as: mobile phone usage and safety,…
Today is six 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…
We are pleased to share some exciting news! femLENS, with the support of German embassy in Estonia, is opening a media lab in Narva, Estonia, for the next five months! During these months we will organise: – Documentary photography workshops for all ages – Portfolio reviews for more advanced photographers – Work with family archives…
femLENS Photo Club v2 – Sunday 18 April 2021 13:00-15:00 Dublin/Ireland Join us this coming Sunday 18 April at 13:00 Dublin/Ireland time for the second session of our photo club. Last month we discussed a photo project by Maria Khoroshilova using an innovative format of first discussing the work without knowing the author or the story…
femLENS is happy to announce its new partnership with the Cameroon Association of Women in Media AFMEC. AFMEC is a professional network of women in Cameroon who work and contribute to all areas of media including journalism, production, editing and directing. This organisation works to advocate for women in media while leveraging media to fight…
Title: Online HER|visual|STORY Digital Photography Festival Launches on International Day of the Elimination of Violence against Women Narva, Estonia, November 17, 2020 femLENS, in partnership with Foundation for International Girls in the Arts (F.I.G.A) announces today the launch of HER|visual|STORY, an upcoming digital photography festival. Taking place online over four days, HER|visual|STORY invites you to consider…
PRESS RELEASE (Berlin, Germany, August 31, 20202) femLENS, an Estonia-based non-profit association, is proud to announce the launch of the book “Unlearning the Ordinary: through a lens for the commons*” to celebrate five years of documentary photography workshops with women and girls from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds. “Unlearning the Ordinary: through a lens for…