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…
In October 2017 femLENS organised a series of workshops in Shatila camp, that is located in southern Beirut and was established in 1949 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to accommodate hundreds of refugees who fled from northern Palestine after 1948. Covering an area of 0.4 km², the camp has grown to…
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…
We are very happy and grateful for the support we received from Thomson Reuters Poland by providing us with disposable film cameras that our workshop participants will us to create their personal project.
by Kerriann Marden Life in the Gaza Strip is hard and getting harder. A recent United Nations report predicts that conditions there will be “unliveable” by the year 2020, just five months away. In male-dominated Gaza, where no one has enough, females have even less: less freedom of movement, less economic opportunity, less political power,…
Today we are finishing the last documentary photography workshop in Torrox, Spain, where women have been working on stories about the older population of their village, personal loneliness and social activism. The photographs will be featured in the second issue of We See Magazine which will be published mid December 2018. On Friday we begin…