Visual Literacy is Empowerment
by Jessica Couloute On International Women’s Day in 2016, at the Let Girls Learn event, Michelle Obama illustrated the power […]
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femLENS Publishes First Book “Unlearning the Ordinary: through a lens for the commons*”
PRESS RELEASE (Berlin, Germany, August 31, 20202) femLENS, an Estonia-based non-profit association, is proud to announce the launch of the […]
Happy 5 year anniversary femLENS!
A few days ago an ex-colleague of mine had posted a photograph of the number 5 on his social media […]
Beirut Explosion by Halima Al Haj Ali
by Halima Al Haj Ali, Beirut, Lebanon 10.09.2020Cover photo by Faten Anbar I am photographing and documenting what happened in […]
Have Social Media Ruined Photography? Not Exactly.
by Cassandra Lamberti Photo by Halima Al Haj Ali The world’s oldest surviving photograph was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce […]
Righting the Wrong: How Women Have Been Excluded from the Art World and the Importance of Sharing Their Stories
by Cassandra Lamberti Photo by Arlette Bashizi When you open a book, inside there are words brimming with knowledge, history […]
Digital literacy – common good or privilege? Do we still want to go back to “normal life”?
femLENS documentary photography workshops usually take place in small groups and face to face. The participants get any help they […]
The Contemporary Normal: How the Coronavirus Is Affecting the World
by Cassandra Lamberti Cover photo by Viktoiya Gorbach With the progressive rise of COVID-19, the entire world is facing a […]
Why Volunteer?
by Cassandra Lamberti History paints for us a delineation of the word volunteer as those who have the time and […]
The Wall | Jenny Nash
Jenny Nash uses the experiential nature of her practice as an important component in her work. She documents spaces of […]