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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 […]

News, Workshop

“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 […]

Exhibition, News

Nonprofit femLENS Celebrates Four Years of Empowering Female Photographers

August 4, 2019April 20, 2022

Berlin, Germany— August 3, 2019 For Immediate Release August marks the four years that nonprofit organization femLENS has empowered women […]

News

Viewing Gaza Through a Different Lens

August 3, 2019April 20, 2022

by Kerriann Marden Life in the Gaza Strip is hard and getting harder. A recent United Nations report predicts that […]

News

Teaching Women the Life-Changing Skill of Taking Photographs

July 17, 2019April 20, 2022

By Barbara Filaih The Gaza Strip, dubbed the biggest open-air prison in the world, has been under Israeli occupation since […]

Fundraising, News, Refugees, Workshop

World Refugee Day: Supporting Women Education

June 20, 2019April 20, 2022

By Barbara Filaih World Refugee Day is observed by 100 countries to raise awareness of the struggles faced by refugees […]

News, Refugees

femLENS workshops

June 19, 2019April 20, 2022

In August 2019 it will be 4 years since femLENS started running its workshops. In this time we have done […]

News, Workshop

femLENS started workshops in Berlin

March 9, 2019April 20, 2022

Thanks to the help from the community space Die Lernwerkstatt, femLENS’ first Berlin workshop happened on March 6th. Our Berlin […]

Fundraising, News, Workshop

Human Trafficking in Ukraine, research by femLENS

January 11, 2019April 20, 2022

In October 2018 femLENS ran a series of documentary photography workshops in the city of Zhytomy, Ukraine. According to the […]

Human Trafficking, News

Second Issue of We See Magazine

December 23, 2018April 20, 2022

It’s been a very busy year for femLENS and we’re happy to present you the second issue of the women-only […]

Magazine, News

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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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News

  • Outsider Art & Disability Inclusion: art:OUT First Partner Meeting in Berlin
  • ReFrame Project Partners Meet in Zagreb for Training of Trainers on Gender-Sensitive Sports Media
  • 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

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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