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…
And another behind the scenes photo: from the current femLENS online documentary photography series of workshops with a group of women from Donegal, Ireland. This is the second time we work with Women’s Collective Ireland-Donegal. The interest for the workshops last year was high and everybody who wanted couldn’t do it then. The photo is…
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…
Documentary Photography and Storytelling Course The Documentary Photography and Storytelling series of online workshops gives you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of documentary photography and visual storytelling. The course is useful both for those who already own a camera as well as for beginners who have never held a camera in their…
This Monday 9th of March we are starting a series of documentary photography workshops with girls aged 17-23 and women aged 40+ in the town of Narva, Estonia – the hometown of femLENS founders Jekaterina Saveljeva and Maria Vesselko. You can read about Narva and its historic complexity that we hope will become visible to…
femLENS is running a series of documentary photography workshops in partnership with “Amal, Berlin!”. Amal Berlin is an Arabic, Farsi and German-language digital newspaper that covers local news in Berlin and Germany. They work primarily for and with refugees who are new in the city and can’t read local news in German. The platform reaches…
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.
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…
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,…