On 24 August, 2022, femLENS founder Jekaterina Saveljeva spoke to Becky Bissong on gender issues, photography and the pandemic visualised on CRTV national radio station.
Listen to the interview below!
We were happy to learn last Sunday that our Beirut workshop participant Halima al-Haj Ali won the top prize at the Lebanon Changemaker Photo Contest that focused on the Sustainable Development Goals. Halima is from Syria, living in Shatila Refugee Camp in Beirut, Lebanon since 2012. She was a housewife back in Syria, living in…
Title: Online HER|visual|STORY Digital Photography Festival Launches on International Day of the Elimination of Violence against Women Narva, Estonia, November 17, 2020 femLENS, in partnership with Foundation for International Girls in the Arts (F.I.G.A) announces today the launch of HER|visual|STORY, an upcoming digital photography festival. Taking place online over four days, HER|visual|STORY invites you to consider…
By Barbara Filaih World Refugee Day is observed by 100 countries to raise awareness of the struggles faced by refugees around the world. According to the UNHCR Statistics in 2018, 70.8 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide because of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. There were staggering 37,000 new displacements every day in…
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…
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…
In June 2025, femLENS was granted ECOSOC Special Consultative Status by the United Nations Economic and Social Council. This is a significant recognition that opens up new opportunities to bring the voices, stories, and visual work of women in our community into global conversations. Holding ECOSOC Special Consultative Status means that femLENS can now: –…