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!
This weekend on 21 November 2015 femLENS held a photo exhibition showing the results of our first series of workshops in Balgaddy, Dublin. The exhibition was an interactive “photo-hunt”. The photographs were spread out through Balgaddy and visitors used maps to find the photos. Our workshop participant Paula Haverty was around telling stories about the life in Balgaddy…
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
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…
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…
This Monday 9th of March we are starting a series of documentary photography workshops with girls aged 17-23 and women aged 40+ in the town of Narva, Estonia – the hometown of femLENS founders Jekaterina Saveljeva and Maria Vesselko. You can read about Narva and its historic complexity that we hope will become visible to…