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!
By Barbara Filaih The Gaza Strip, dubbed the biggest open-air prison in the world, has been under Israeli occupation since 2007. The longstanding restrictions on the movement of people and goods to and from the Gaza Strip have undermined the living conditions of about two million Palestinians. Most of these restrictions, which were originally imposed…
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…
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 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…
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…