femLENS Impact Report April 2017 – April 2018
Download the femLENS Impact Report and learn more about our work and achievements over this last year.
Download the femLENS Impact Report and learn more about our work and achievements over this last year.
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…
Want to attend the best part of the year in Gdynia, Poland? Go to Klub Desdemona on Saturday June 9, 2018. Starting at 19.00 there will be music, a photo exhibition, some words said about what we do and why we do it, and most importantly an auction of photographs taken by our workshop participants. There…
Today is World Day Against Trafficking in Persons! Read a report by Freedom Fund “Struggling to survive: Slavery and exploitation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon” about Syrian Refugees in Lebanon and their vulnerability to trafficking.
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…
femLENS, the non-profit association aimed at empowering women through documentary photography, is presenting work done in partnership with the International Women* Space in Berlin between May and June 2019, and during the Kunst trotz(t) Ausgrenzung (Art despite Exclusion) festival in July 2019. femLENS held a series of workshops in which women from diverse backgrounds learned…
By Aishling Heffernan femLENS has completed its first Community Survey, which aimed to examine the needs, challenges and ambitions of women and non-binary documentary photographers. The inspiration for this survey came from noticing the lack of accurate research into the lives and challenges of female and non-binary documentary photographers. For example, an Industry benchmark for…