In August 2019 it will be 4 years since femLENS started running its workshops. In this time we have done 9 workshops in 6 countries with more than 40 women.
Below are some photographs from the very first to the latest workshop we’ve done. We are fundraising money to be able to do our next – tenth workshop – in Gaza, where local women have almost zero chances to become a documentary photographer. We hope you will spread the word about our fundraiser and give what you can.
Illustration by Ludovic Pujol
We are grateful for this feature by Tracy Piper-Wright for the ninth issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture focusing on Photography and Resistance. Read the article here about femLENS and our work, and the work of Jo Spence and Joan Solomon (What Can a Woman Do with A Camera?) in the larger context of…
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…
Jenny Nash uses the experiential nature of her practice as an important component in her work. She documents spaces of memory and also appropriate PTSD treatments such as returning to sites of past trauma with my camera. Alternatively she confronts past trauma in self portraiture sessions which enable her to access deep memories and converse…
We were happy to learn last Sunday that our Beirut workshop participant Halima al-Haj Ali won the top prize at the Lebanon Changemaker Photo Contest that focused on the Sustainable Development Goals. Halima is from Syria, living in Shatila Refugee Camp in Beirut, Lebanon since 2012. She was a housewife back in Syria, living in…
femLENS is running a series of documentary photography workshops in partnership with “Amal, Berlin!”. Amal Berlin is an Arabic, Farsi and German-language digital newspaper that covers local news in Berlin and Germany. They work primarily for and with refugees who are new in the city and can’t read local news in German. The platform reaches…