NEW SERIES OF WORKSHOPS
Happy New Year everyone!
femLENS is planning a series of workshops for girls between the ages of 12-18 in the Boomerang Youth Cafe in Drogheda starting end of February.
Stay tuned for the stories they will tell us!
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…
Today is femLENS 2 year anniversary since the very first workshop in Balgaddy, Dublin. That first workshop happened in a community centre with no projector or screen, no budget and not much of a clear view of where this could go – just an idea that there are stories about the community that women need…
Beautiful Alicja has bought two prints from us of our most recent participants’ work – well done to Ewa and Magda, and hope Alicja enjoys the prints for a long time! Check out Alicja’s cool hashtags – looostinwonderland https://www.instagram.com/p/BXG95jiFUSR/?taken-by=looostinwonderland
This past Monday, Jekaterina started a new series of documentary photography workshops with women in the village of Torrox in southern Spain. The workshops are being held in the local radio station building and organised with the help of a local women’s association. The participants range from the ages of 46 to 64 and come…
We are happy to says that we’re coming to our last documentary photography workshop for women from a series of four. Next weekend we will meet for the last time with 10 women from various backgrounds from the suburb of Chylonia to discuss the participants’ photographs and plan our final exhibition (which should happen sometime…