Every year in December photographers, agencies and publications share their best-of selections, of the work and stories done through the year. femLENS would like to share its own selection of our favourite photographs made by our various workshop participants. femLENS Best of 2017 can be viewed here. This year femLENS ran two workshops – in…
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…
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…
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: –…
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…
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…