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…
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…
Many thanks from Thomas Mukoya and Andrew Winning for the photographs of our “street” exhibition in Gdynia.
These were photos that were shown in Gdynia to the public. Will post some photos from the exhibition opening in a few days.
The femLENS exhibition is happening this weekend 11 June, 2017 at the Gdynia Wzgórze Św. Maksymiliana underground crossing. We are very excited and think it’s going be a great event. Spread the word and join us if you can. Event page of Facebook. PRESS RELEASE: Transcending disabilities through documentary photography * The unseen life of people with…
Full video will be out at the end of May – beginning of June when the workshops are finished and we organise an exhibition which will feature the work of our participants. May is National Disability month in Poland, and our participants work will provide us with a unique insight into the world of disabled women in Gdynia,…
We are very happy and grateful for the support we received from Thomson Reuters Poland by providing us with disposable film cameras that our workshop participants will us to create their personal project.
femLENS is a tool for social change, offering an inclusive approach by empowering women to become change agents themselves by using visual storytelling to document their own lives within the society we live in through the easily available tools – mobile phone cameras and other cheaper alternatives. Jekaterina Saveljeva, the founder and workshop coordinator at…
We’re happy to say that on April 1 we are starting a new series of documentary photography workshops. This time we are also working with CWM as a part of their projects for people with disabilities. So far we have 8 participants that will be learning photography with us. We’re really looking forward for the workshops to…
We were not able to put together an exhibition from the last series of workshops for various reasons, holiday season came upon us and everyone scattered. But the new year is now rolling on at high speed, it’s March and a new workshop is being planned. This time with women with mobility disabilities. We hope to…