Jekaterina Saveljeva, founder and workshop facilitator at femLENS, is attending this year’s Thomson Reuters Trust Foundation Conference – the world’s leading forum for bringing together global business leaders, government representatives, lawyers, pioneers and advocates in the field of human rights and anti-slavery. It is an amazing experience to meet all the people working towards ending human…
Today we are finishing the last documentary photography workshop in Torrox, Spain, where women have been working on stories about the older population of their village, personal loneliness and social activism. The photographs will be featured in the second issue of We See Magazine which will be published mid December 2018. On Friday we begin…
This past Monday, Jekaterina started a new series of documentary photography workshops with women in the village of Torrox in southern Spain. The workshops are being held in the local radio station building and organised with the help of a local women’s association. The participants range from the ages of 46 to 64 and come…
This article was written for “We See”, the first women-only documentary photography magazine produced by femLENS and published this year on International Women’s Day. by Bogdan-Sorin Popescu, femLENS Director of Communications Documentary photography tends to be associated with the image painted by glossy-format magazines like National Geographic or Time, which contain outsiders’ accounts of costly…
Press Release (Gdynia, Poland, March 8, 2018) This International Women’s Day marks the launch of We See, a biannual women-only documentary photography magazine, edited independently by Estonian-based NGO femLENS. This is not to celebrate women’s achievements but, rather, to encourage women to become change agents themselves while struggling for gender equality, and disrupting gender-stereotypes in cultural…
We are currently in Beirut, Lebanon, doing a documentary photography workshop with women living in the Shatila refugee camp. Building trust and confidence in the women is always the hardest thing when just starting but I hope by the end of next week, after 16 hours together, they will realise their own potential and approach…
Full video will be out at the end of May – beginning of June when the workshops are finished and we organise an exhibition which will feature the work of our participants. May is National Disability month in Poland, and our participants work will provide us with a unique insight into the world of disabled women in Gdynia,…
femLENS is a tool for social change, offering an inclusive approach by empowering women to become change agents themselves by using visual storytelling to document their own lives within the society we live in through the easily available tools – mobile phone cameras and other cheaper alternatives. Jekaterina Saveljeva, the founder and workshop coordinator at…
We’re happy to say that on April 1 we are starting a new series of documentary photography workshops. This time we are also working with CWM as a part of their projects for people with disabilities. So far we have 8 participants that will be learning photography with us. We’re really looking forward for the workshops to…
We were not able to put together an exhibition from the last series of workshops for various reasons, holiday season came upon us and everyone scattered. But the new year is now rolling on at high speed, it’s March and a new workshop is being planned. This time with women with mobility disabilities. We hope to…