PHOTOS FROM THE EXHIBITION IN GDYNIA, POLAND
Many thanks from Thomas Mukoya and Andrew Winning for the photographs of our “street” exhibition 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…
Happy New Year everyone! femLENS is planning a series of workshops for girls between the ages of 12-18 in the Boomerang Youth Cafe in Drogheda starting end of February. Stay tuned for the stories they will tell us!
This weekend on 21 November 2015 femLENS held a photo exhibition showing the results of our first series of workshops in Balgaddy, Dublin. The exhibition was an interactive “photo-hunt”. The photographs were spread out through Balgaddy and visitors used maps to find the photos. Our workshop participant Paula Haverty was around telling stories about the life in Balgaddy…
We are happy to says that we’re coming to our last documentary photography workshop for women from a series of four. Next weekend we will meet for the last time with 10 women from various backgrounds from the suburb of Chylonia to discuss the participants’ photographs and plan our final exhibition (which should happen sometime…
Today is femLENS 2 year anniversary since the very first workshop in Balgaddy, Dublin. That first workshop happened in a community centre with no projector or screen, no budget and not much of a clear view of where this could go – just an idea that there are stories about the community that women need…
We have had a very busy spring learning about documentary photography, looking for stories to tell, realising them and finally organising an exhibition in one of the busiest spots in Gdynia to share the work of our participants. Ewa and Magda were very dedicated and we wish them to keep on practicing telling their stories…