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…
Who Doesn’t Love a Challenge? The raw reality of feminist resistance This third special issue of We See magazine strips away NGO platitudes to reveal the unvarnished truth of grassroots activism. Part of the WeLens project documenting gender-based violence across borders, this collection offers: Maggy Dago’s powerful photo essay on Togolese women creating economic solutions through collective…
It’s been a very busy year for femLENS and we’re happy to present you the second issue of the women-only documentary photography magazine We See. This issue focuses on women’s rights, migration and human trafficking, as well as many photographs of women living in rural Spain and Ukraine. There is also a new “Featured Photographer”…
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…
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…
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…