femLENS is happy to announce its new partnership with the Cameroon Association of Women in Media AFMEC. AFMEC is a professional network of women in Cameroon who work and contribute to all areas of media including journalism, production, editing and directing. This organisation works to advocate for women in media while leveraging media to fight…
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…
Jekaterina was recently asked to speak about femLENS at TEDxLasnamäe in Estonia. Here is the video in Russian and the English version of the speech is in a link bellow. An English version of the the femLENS speech at TEDxLasnamäe in Tallinn, Estonia
We have had a very busy spring learning about documentary photography, looking for stories to tell, realising them and finally organising an exhibition in one of the busiest spots in Gdynia to share the work of our participants. Ewa and Magda were very dedicated and we wish them to keep on practicing telling their stories…
femLENS has received amazing news that we have been invited to participate in a LAB: Unveil the Hidden Presence: Trafficking in Women and Children, organised by Thomson Reuters Trust foundation and the Global Leadership Academy The Lab will bring together about 30 high-ranking participants from governments, media, business, academia, and civil society. It will work on approaches to…
Last week, partners of the ReFrame – Women in Sport project met in Zagreb for a Training of Trainers session, an important step in supporting more inclusive media practices around women in sport. ReFrame works across four countries to help women in sport develop media and advocacy skills while giving journalists practical tools for gender-sensitive…