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…
femLENS presents the top photographs from our 2019 documentary photography workshop participants. femLENS ran three series of workshops in 2019 in Berlin, Germany, at Die Lernwerkstatt, the International Women Space (IWS) and part of the Art Despite Exclusion festival.
femLENS, the non-profit association aimed at empowering women through documentary photography, is presenting work done in partnership with the International Women* Space in Berlin between May and June 2019, and during the Kunst trotz(t) Ausgrenzung (Art despite Exclusion) festival in July 2019. femLENS held a series of workshops in which women from diverse backgrounds learned…
Berlin, Germany— August 3, 2019 For Immediate Release August marks the four years that nonprofit organization femLENS has empowered women to tell their stories through documentary photography. Staff, volunteers, board members, recent workshop participants and supporters of femLENS will celebrate this milestone with an informal gathering at Oblomov in Berlin on 14 August. The venue…
by Kerriann Marden Life in the Gaza Strip is hard and getting harder. A recent United Nations report predicts that conditions there will be “unliveable” by the year 2020, just five months away. In male-dominated Gaza, where no one has enough, females have even less: less freedom of movement, less economic opportunity, less political power,…
By Barbara Filaih The Gaza Strip, dubbed the biggest open-air prison in the world, has been under Israeli occupation since 2007. The longstanding restrictions on the movement of people and goods to and from the Gaza Strip have undermined the living conditions of about two million Palestinians. Most of these restrictions, which were originally imposed…
By Barbara Filaih World Refugee Day is observed by 100 countries to raise awareness of the struggles faced by refugees around the world. According to the UNHCR Statistics in 2018, 70.8 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide because of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. There were staggering 37,000 new displacements every day in…
In August 2019 it will be 4 years since femLENS started running its workshops. In this time we have done 9 workshops in 6 countries with more than 40 women. Below are some photographs from the very first to the latest workshop we’ve done. We are fundraising money to be able to do our next…
Thanks to the help from the community space Die Lernwerkstatt, femLENS’ first Berlin workshop happened on March 6th. Our Berlin group is a very diverse one! Five women from four different countries and various professions attended: two from Mexico, one from Columbia, one from Syria and one from Austria; a mother, a chef, a singer,…