In October 2017 femLENS organised a series of workshops in Shatila camp, that is located in southern Beirut and was established in 1949 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to accommodate hundreds of refugees who fled from northern Palestine after 1948. Covering an area of 0.4 km², the camp has grown to…
Want to attend the best part of the year in Gdynia, Poland? Go to Klub Desdemona on Saturday June 9, 2018. Starting at 19.00 there will be music, a photo exhibition, some words said about what we do and why we do it, and most importantly an auction of photographs taken by our workshop participants. There…
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…
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…