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,…
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…
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…
In October 2018 femLENS ran a series of documentary photography workshops in the city of Zhytomy, Ukraine. According to the research commissioned by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) mission in Ukraine and conducted by GfK Ukraine in 2015, over 230,000 Ukrainians have become victims of human trafficking since 1991. The cited report shows that…
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…
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…