World Day Against Trafficking in Persons – 30 July 2018
Illustration by Ludovic Pujol
Illustration by Ludovic Pujol
femLENS is a volunteer-run non-profit association committed to developing and including women’s voices into storytelling and the cultural representation of women and their communities in the world. femLENS seeks a volunteer Partnership Coordinator to support our mission by developing our fundraising operations. The Partnership Coordinator will build a Fundraising Team and work in concert with…
Between June 24-28 I attended a Lab about human trafficking, organised by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, GIZ and the Global Leadership Academy, held in Nairobi, Kenya. The Lab brought together 33 people from 25 different countries working in different capacities to fight trafficking in persons in the 21st century context. What we learned over four…
femLENS has launched a crowdfunding campaign to gather funds to attend the LAB: Unveil the Hidden Presence: Trafficking in Women and Children, organised by Thomson Reuters Trust foundation and the Global Leadership Academy. The campaign is ongoing as the last event of the LAB will be at the end of November. Please consider donating through gofundme, PayPal or by…
Berlin, Germany— August 3, 2019 For Immediate Release August marks the four years that nonprofit organization femLENS has empowered women to tell their stories through documentary photography. Staff, volunteers, board members, recent workshop participants and supporters of femLENS will celebrate this milestone with an informal gathering at Oblomov in Berlin on 14 August. The venue…
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…
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…