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.
femLENS presents the top photographs from our 2019 documentary photography workshop participants. femLENS ran three series of workshops in 2019 in Berlin, Germany, at Die Lernwerkstatt, the International Women Space (IWS) and part of the Art Despite Exclusion festival.
Berlin, Germany— August 3, 2019 For Immediate Release August marks the four years that nonprofit organization femLENS has empowered women to tell their stories through documentary photography. Staff, volunteers, board members, recent workshop participants and supporters of femLENS will celebrate this milestone with an informal gathering at Oblomov in Berlin on 14 August. The venue…
For too long, storytelling — especially in photography and journalism — has been shaped by a narrow set of voices. Certain stories were told over and over. Others were ignored completely. And too often, women were not the storytellers — they were the subjects, the symbols, the background. femLENS was founded to challenge that. From…
Last week, partners of the ReFrame – Women in Sport project met in Zagreb for a Training of Trainers session, an important step in supporting more inclusive media practices around women in sport. ReFrame works across four countries to help women in sport develop media and advocacy skills while giving journalists practical tools for gender-sensitive…
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…
This Monday 9th of March we are starting a series of documentary photography workshops with girls aged 17-23 and women aged 40+ in the town of Narva, Estonia – the hometown of femLENS founders Jekaterina Saveljeva and Maria Vesselko. You can read about Narva and its historic complexity that we hope will become visible to…