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.
by Emily Cai The mission of femLENS is rooted in female empowerment and gender equality. Over the past years, femLENS has had the opportunity to work with women in countries such as Poland, Ireland, Ukraine, Lebanon, Germany, Spain, setting up photography workshops in order to help women tell their stories. As an organisation whose values…
Cover photo Femgrafía Index ©Teresa Aviedma (Teresaverso) Interview with Karla Guerrero, founder of Femgrafia, as well as photographer and curator, about the project and women working together through skill-share. When and why did you start Femgrafia? I’m a photographer, digital curator, and cultural manager. Last year I decided to build this platform following my background…
Press Release (Gdynia, Poland, March 8, 2018) This International Women’s Day marks the launch of We See, a biannual women-only documentary photography magazine, edited independently by Estonian-based NGO femLENS. This is not to celebrate women’s achievements but, rather, to encourage women to become change agents themselves while struggling for gender equality, and disrupting gender-stereotypes in cultural…
femLENS is running a series of documentary photography workshops in partnership with “Amal, Berlin!”. Amal Berlin is an Arabic, Farsi and German-language digital newspaper that covers local news in Berlin and Germany. They work primarily for and with refugees who are new in the city and can’t read local news in German. The platform reaches…
Want to attend the best part of the year in Gdynia, Poland? Go to Klub Desdemona on Saturday June 9, 2018. Starting at 19.00 there will be music, a photo exhibition, some words said about what we do and why we do it, and most importantly an auction of photographs taken by our workshop participants. There…