World Day Against Trafficking in Persons – 30 July 2018
Illustration by Ludovic Pujol
Illustration by Ludovic Pujol
Today we are finishing the last documentary photography workshop in Torrox, Spain, where women have been working on stories about the older population of their village, personal loneliness and social activism. The photographs will be featured in the second issue of We See Magazine which will be published mid December 2018. On Friday we begin…
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…
Last Friday, 13 August, femLENS launched the five months project – Narva mediaLAB. The lab is aimed at different groups of people – youths and families, the elderly, as well as bloggers and media professionals. Over the next five months we will hold regular meetings and cover topics such as: mobile phone usage and safety,…
At femLENS, we are proud to announce our participation in the AGENCY: Vote With Her project, lead by the European Network of Migrant Women (ENoMW). Our collective efforts is to train women of migrant background(s) across Europe, to be active agents in the preparation for the European elections 2024. Supported by European Parliament, this exciting…
For too long, storytelling — especially in photography and journalism — has been shaped by a narrow set of voices. Certain stories were told over and over. Others were ignored completely. And too often, women were not the storytellers — they were the subjects, the symbols, the background. femLENS was founded to challenge that. From…
By Claire O’Brien I was in a drug store in Alexandria, Virginia, when I witnessed the unhappy moment in an immigrant woman’s experience. She was young, 19 years old, maybe. She stood at the register, wearing the store’s blue polo shirt, her hijab framing her pretty features. She spoke English with confidence as she assisted…