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The Wall | Jenny Nash

March 30, 2020April 20, 2022

Jenny Nash uses the experiential nature of her practice as an important component in her work. She documents spaces of […]

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Interview with Femgrafia – a platform for photographer from Latin America and Spain

March 23, 2020April 20, 2022

Cover photo Femgrafía Index ©Teresa Aviedma (Teresaverso) Interview with Karla Guerrero, founder of Femgrafia, as well as photographer and curator, […]

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Women and Storytelling

March 9, 2020April 20, 2022

by Emily Cai The mission of femLENS is rooted in female empowerment and gender equality. Over the past years, femLENS […]

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NARVA – COMPLEX PAST, COMPLEX PRESENT

March 6, 2020April 20, 2022

This Monday 9th of March we are starting a series of documentary photography workshops with girls aged 17-23 and women […]

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Berlin Workshops 2020

February 5, 2020April 20, 2022

femLENS is running a series of documentary photography workshops in partnership with “Amal, Berlin!”. Amal Berlin is an Arabic, Farsi […]

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New Year femLENS Photo Exhibition

February 1, 2020April 20, 2022

We invite you to celebrate the new year with femLENS in Berlin, look at photographs of our workshop participants, talk […]

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A Walk in Her Shoes: Bearing Witness to Women on the Move

January 18, 2020April 20, 2022

By Claire O’Brien I was in a drug store in Alexandria, Virginia, when I witnessed the unhappy moment in an […]

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femLENS Announces Publication of Third Issue of We See Magazine

January 14, 2020April 20, 2022

femLENS, the Estonia-based volunteer organisation dedicated to empowering women by teaching them documentary photography, announced the publication of the We […]

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Best of femLENS Photography 2019

December 30, 2019April 20, 2022

femLENS presents the top photographs from our 2019 documentary photography workshop participants. femLENS ran three series of workshops in 2019 […]

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“Women by Women” Photo Exhibition

August 17, 2019April 20, 2022

femLENS, the non-profit association aimed at empowering women through documentary photography, is presenting work done in partnership with the International […]

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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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femLENS MTÜ (registration number 80429622) is an Estonian registered non-profit association.

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