femLENS has been actively participating in various events and workshops to promote women’s empowerment through photography. Here are some of our notable participations:

  • 2025–2026 (12 December 2025 – 12 January 2026): Bursa Photo Fest, Bursa, Turkey. femLENS presented the exhibition “We See”, showcasing work by workshop participants from Afghanistan, Lebanon, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, and Palestine.
  • 2024: “Visual Bridges” transnational workshop on Ethical Photography, Intercultural Dialogue and Artivism, Athens, Greece (funded by the Anna Lindh Foundation). The workshop brought together educators and practitioners from Greece, Tunisia, and femLENS, engaging students and faculty of the University of West Attica in discussions on ethical photography, intercultural dialogue, artivism, and the challenges of AI in photography and media.
  • 2024: Mondo MTÜ movie night and panel discussion. Screening of the animated documentary “Flee”, followed by a panel discussion featuring femLENS founder Jekaterina Saveljeva and human rights activist and Afghan refugee Ali Afzal.
  • 2022: Female in Focus Photography contest, British Journal of Photography. Jekaterina Saveljeva served as a judge for the international award championing women-identifying photographers.
  • 2022: Migrant Women: Addressing specific needs for full digital learning, Brussels, Belgium. As part of the Teach Digital project, femLENS participated in a workshop led by migrant women experts on digital rights, digital content creation, and migrant women’s rights.
  • 2022: Visual storytelling and digital campaigning workshop for the European Network of Migrant Women (ENOMW), Dublin, Ireland. The workshop focused on strengthening digital and storytelling skills of migrant and ethnic minority background women.
  • 2021: Global Leadership Academy online conference. Jekaterina Saveljeva presented femLENS’ photojournalistic work addressing trafficking in persons, including workshops, exhibitions, and prevention-focused methodologies.
  • 2021: Kolga Tbilisi Photo. femLENS conducted an online visual storytelling workshop as part of the festival’s programme promoting photography in Georgia and internationally.
  • 2021: Photography for Change – PHOTO IS:VOICE, Photo IS:RAEL (online). Jekaterina Saveljeva spoke about femLENS’ work supporting women’s self-expression, skills, and independence through photography.
  • 2019: Documentary photography workshop at Diakonie Deutschland’s art festival Kunst trotz(t) Ausgrenzung (Art Despite Exclusion), Berlin, Germany.
  • 2019: Story development workshop at the Chaos Communication Congress, Leipzig, Germany, focusing on storytelling in relation to security, cryptography, privacy, and freedom of expression.
  • 2018: femLENS presented its work at the Simbiosis Festival, Malaga, Spain.
  • 2018: Presentation on femLENS’ role in the global fight against human trafficking at the scholar’s breakfast, Thomson Reuters Trust Foundation Conference.
  • 2016: Jekaterina Saveljeva presented the talk “Invisible Women in Documentary Photography” at the TEDxLasnamäe conference, Tallinn, Estonia.