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.
femLENS has launched a crowdfunding campaign to gather funds to attend the LAB: Unveil the Hidden Presence: Trafficking in Women and Children, organised by Thomson Reuters Trust foundation and the Global Leadership Academy. The campaign is ongoing as the last event of the LAB will be at the end of November. Please consider donating through gofundme, PayPal or by…
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!
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.
We are pleased to share some exciting news! femLENS, with the support of German embassy in Estonia, is opening a media lab in Narva, Estonia, for the next five months! During these months we will organise: – Documentary photography workshops for all ages – Portfolio reviews for more advanced photographers – Work with family archives…
Jenny Nash uses the experiential nature of her practice as an important component in her work. She documents spaces of memory and also appropriate PTSD treatments such as returning to sites of past trauma with my camera. Alternatively she confronts past trauma in self portraiture sessions which enable her to access deep memories and converse…
by Halima Al Haj Ali, Beirut, Lebanon 10.09.2020Cover photo by Faten Anbar I am photographing and documenting what happened in Beirut so that the world sees the great destruction and suffering caused by the explosion. On the other hand I’m doing it so that the world knows the help and love that exists among all…
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