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…
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On 25th April, femLENS mission and activities have been presented within the “Live More. Pomerania” initiative in Gdansk, Poland. The event, that took place at Sztuka Wyboru, was part of the multi-year information campaign lunched by Invest in Pomerania to promote the region and attract new employees and people from other provinces of Poland, Europe…
The femLENS team has organised the first-ever fundraising activity, “Yalla Bake”, a bake sale in the Thomson Reuters office in Gdynia, Poland. The money raised will go towards printing “We See” magazine, the first international women-only documentary photography magazine. The magazine highlights works of women living in Ireland, Poland and Lebanon, who do not have a…
The latest World Press Photo report has been released. It gives us insight into the visual representation of the world and diversity, very important work being done by WPP. “In the last three years, the number of female entrants to the World Press Photo Contest has been 15 percent, and this year it increased ever…
This article was written for “We See”, the first women-only documentary photography magazine produced by femLENS and published this year on International Women’s Day. by Bogdan-Sorin Popescu, femLENS Director of Communications Documentary photography tends to be associated with the image painted by glossy-format magazines like National Geographic or Time, which contain outsiders’ accounts of costly…
Interview with the Founder and Workshop Facilitator of femLENS by Rita Plantera, former femLENS Chief of Growth Jekaterina Saveljeva is a photographer, editor and the founder of femLENS and workshop facilitator. We asked her to introduce us to femLENS and its vision. March 2018. You founded femLENS in 2015. How did you come up with…
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…
As we begin the new year, you are invited to have a look at our achievements in 2017. We worked with 2 communities in 2017 – with women with disabilities in Gdynia, Poland and women living in the Shatila Refugee Camp in Berut, Lebanon. Best of femLENS 2017 from femLENS on Vimeo.
We are currently in Beirut, Lebanon, doing a documentary photography workshop with women living in the Shatila refugee camp. Building trust and confidence in the women is always the hardest thing when just starting but I hope by the end of next week, after 16 hours together, they will realise their own potential and approach…