In August 2019 it will be 4 years since femLENS started running its workshops. In this time we have done 9 workshops in 6 countries with more than 40 women.
Below are some photographs from the very first to the latest workshop we’ve done. We are fundraising money to be able to do our next – tenth workshop – in Gaza, where local women have almost zero chances to become a documentary photographer. We hope you will spread the word about our fundraiser and give what you can.
Balgaddy, Dublin, Ireland. Photo by Paula Haverty, 2015.femLENS workshops in Chylonia library, Gdynia, Poland. Photo by Isabelle Macchiorletti, 2016Workshops in Centrum Współpracy Młodzieży in Gdynia, Poland. Photo by Bogdan Popescu, 2017Workshops in Shatila refugee camp, Beirut, Lebanon. Photo by Jamal Saidi, 2017Workshops in Torrox, Spain. Photo by Jekaterina Saveljeva, 2018Workshops in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Photo by Bella Antonyan-Shevchuk, 2018Workshop with Avenir NGO in Zhytomyr, Ukraine. These three wonderful ladies work in Zhytomyr to prevent human trafficking in the Ukraine through handing out leaflets at bus stations, organising seminars and games in schools and further education establishments in Zhytomyr. We did a one-day photography workshop with them to help them better document their work as they operate on a very small budget. Photo by Jekaterina Saveljeva, 2018Workshops at Die Lernwerkstatt in Berlin, Germany. Participants from Mexico, Columbia, Syria and Austria! Photo by Jekaterina Saveljeva, 2019.Workshops at the International Women Space (IWS) in Berlin, Germany. Photo by Jekaterina Saveljeva, 2019.Workshops part of the Art Despite Exclusion festival in Berlin, Germany. Photo by Jekaterina Saveljeva, 2019.Workshop at #36c3 (36th Computer Chaos Congress) in Leipzig, Germany. Photo by Jekaterina Saveljeva, 2019.
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At femLENS, we are proud to announce our participation in the AGENCY: Vote With Her project, lead by the European Network of Migrant Women (ENoMW). Our collective efforts is to train women of migrant background(s) across Europe, to be active agents in the preparation for the European elections 2024. Supported by European Parliament, this exciting…
And another behind the scenes photo: from the current femLENS online documentary photography series of workshops with a group of women from Donegal, Ireland. This is the second time we work with Women’s Collective Ireland-Donegal. The interest for the workshops last year was high and everybody who wanted couldn’t do it then. The photo is…
In October 2018 femLENS ran a series of documentary photography workshops in the city of Zhytomy, Ukraine. According to the research commissioned by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) mission in Ukraine and conducted by GfK Ukraine in 2015, over 230,000 Ukrainians have become victims of human trafficking since 1991. The cited report shows that…
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