HELPING WOMEN TELL THEIR STORIES THROUGH DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY - 2021-2022 SPONSORSHIP AND SUPPORT PACKAGE
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2021-2022 HELPING WOMEN TELL SPONSORSHIP AND THEIR STORIES THROUGH SUPPORT PACKAGE DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
TABLE OF CONTENT Our Mission 3 Our Vission 4 Team 5 Activities 6 Workshops 7 Our community 9 Publications 10 Exhibitions | Events 11 Metrics 12 Impact 13 In the news 14 Collaborations 15 Sponsorship opportunities 16
Our mission
Is to give voice to communities through documentary photography by providing visual and
technological education to women.
Since 2015 femLENS works
with local community centres, femLENS has received the below three badges. For donors, GlobalGiving provides
libraries, activist groups and an additional layer of vetting and due diligence for each of its nonprofit partners
every two years, which may include site visit verification.
NGOs providing documentary
photography workshops Activity reports are available upon demand.
to women and girls from
diverse cultural and economic
backgrounds, organising photo
exhibitions and publishing books
and magazines. Our goal is to
challenge stereotypes, diversify
the media and arts industries, and
contribute to a just representation
of diverse communities. 3
Our vision
Is empowered women creating and sharing their own stories about their lives
4
Team
femLENS is made up of skilled volunteers in Photography, Admin, Education, Communication,
Design, Grants and HR.
We have a strong team of 15 women
from different backgrounds, bringing a
professional expertise to their respective
departments.
Activities
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Activities
Workshops
femLENS has been holding media, issues) using the walls as a means of Dublin, Ireland, women with physical
photography and basic technology getting the attention of the part of disabilities in Gdynia, Poland, women
workshops for women and girls society which doesn’t go to galleries living in Shatila Refugee Camp in
of different ages from diverse or engage with contemporary issues. Beirut, Lebanon, women aged 46-
backgrounds and countries. Since the start of the COVID-19 64 living in rural Spain, women
pandemic, femLENS has also been vulnerable to human trafficking in
We organise street exhibitions of doing workshops online. Zhytomyr, Ukraine, and and many
stories by our workshop participants other groups.
(which are about migration, the We reach diverse communities to
environment, gender norms, and improve representation: femLENS femLENS runs two to four workshops
many other relevant contemporary has worked with single mothers in per year.
7
Workshops in Torrox, Spain. Photo by Jekaterina Saveljeva, 2018 Workshops at the International Women Space (IWS) in Berlin,
Germany. Photo by Jekaterina Saveljeva, 2019
femLENS workshops in Chylonia library, Gdynia, Poland. Photo by Workshops in Shatila refugee camp, Beirut, Lebanon. Photo by
Isabelle Macchiorletti, 2016 Jamal Saidi, 2017 8
Activities
Our Community
We have an active and growing Ukraine, Nigeria and many more.
community of women around the Our members express the need
world who are eager and equipped and importance of this as such
to tell their authentic stories. We communities of photography and
established channels to meet storytelling aren’t always available
that induce continuous and free at local level or grant limited access
discussions. These channels, such as due to professional and connection
discord for daily contact and social requirements.
media groups for topic-centered
discussions, enable community Within this growing community, we
members to gather in different have been implementing various
formats and exchange ideas and projects such as the IWD Campaign
stories from different geographies and Zine, femLENS Monthly
and backgrounds. These platforms Photo Club, and femLENS Discord
not only support the community community projects where the
to have free discussions and members develop a story with the
foster personal growth, but also a support of the community (across
potential source of collaboration Mexico, Indonesia, Italy).
projects between each other and/or
femLENS. This collective altogether Our channels: Instagram, Facebook
creates a sustainable platform where page and private group, Twitter,
Discord group meeting and femLENS Photo Club
meeting. ideas can be incubated into projects LinkedIn, YouTube, Vimeo, Discord
while receiving community support. and newsletter.
Our community is made of women
from Poland, Lebanon, Spain, Italy,
Mexico, Congo, Cameroon, Ireland, 9
Activities
Publications
Annual magazine
We See magazine is a women-only
documentary photography magazine first
published in 2018. All featured work comes
from participants in pastfemLENS’ workshops.
We See is produced entirely in-house by
a team of volunteer writers, editors and
designers. We See magazine highlights
the creative work of women who do not
have professional photography training but
instead have participated in documentary
photography workshops organised by
femLENS.
Books
In 2020 femLENS published “Unlearning the
ordinary: through a lens for the commons“
book to celebrate five years of stories.
Zines & Campaigns
For IWD 2021 we have prepared a zine of
photos of women’s protests from different
parts of the world that will be available for
print around the world.
2021 “Women at Work” campaign.
10Activities Exhibitions | Events Exhibitions The cornerstone of femLENS activities are the workshops, providing photography and basic technology trainings to women and girls of different ages from diverse backgrounds and countries. Participants decide on themes to guide their photo- taking, working with their communities, not against them. Exploring important themes and issues, highlighting achievements and celebrations. Through group presentations, participants share and explain their selected photos and subjects, finalise their projects, prepare a package for publication, exhibition and further story development. List of exhibitions: - Dublin, Ireland 2015; - Gdynia, Poland 2017; - Berlin, Germany 2019, 2020; - Narva, Estonia 2020. Festival We have expanded our work to not The festival, and our community has continue using photography for social only do workshops but unite women women from five continents. We aim awareness. interested in photography and activism for this group to work on visual stories through an online community which dealing with issues we care about - started with a digital photo festival the growing poverty, gender-based “HER|visual|STORY” launched in 2020. violence, under-representation - to 11
Metrics
12Impact
A participant in a femLENS documentary photography workshop, Halima Al
Haj Ali, was awarded the $5000 top prize in the ChangeMakers Lebanon photo
competition.
Jekaterina Saveljeva, founder and workshop facilitator at femLENS, was invited
to present the talk “Invisible Women in Documentary Photography” at the TEDx
conference held in Estonia, TEDxLasnamäe.
The role of femLENS in the global fight against human trafficking was presented
during the scholar’s breakfast at the Thomson Reuters Trust Foundation Conference.
femLENS was invited to participate in Diakonie Deutschland’s art festival, Kunst
trotz(t) Ausgrenzung (Art Despite Exclusion).
Elisa Mariotti, a femLENS community member, following completing a femLENS
photo project had her work published in a local Italian newspaper, and has been
invited to participate in a local photo festival, 2021.
To date, not only the nonprofit itself, but also the photography of femLENS
staff and the photos of workshop participants have been featured in various
international media outlets, including the The New York Times, Irish Tmes,
The Nation, Lebanon Daily Star, South Africa’s news24, BronxTimes, Basmeh &
Zeitooneh’s Newsletter, “Stories from the Field”, the blog “The Science Papers”,
among others.
13In the news
2021 femLENS is doing some important work. In a world often
defined by exclusivity and barriers to entry, they’re working
BPI, May 2021: Umbrella Tbilisi Photo 2021 Awards will be held on to empower women to “become change agents” by teaching
May 7 in the virtual space them the tools of visual storytelling.
ResourceMag, Mar. 2018: Introducing “We See,” the documentary
2019 photography magazine encouraging women to become agents of
This lack of diversity worried me—who is showing us their change
perspective of the world? Why only them and where is
everyone else? Others who have noticed this have started 2017
to act on this gap, but most of these projects are aimed
at elevating existing women photographers, which is A decade working in photojournalism around the world
necessary for those women but doesn’t train more women taught Jekaterina Saveljeva two things: Not enough
nor address the lack of diversity in photography photojournalism is done by locals, nor are there enough
women working in the industry.
Wanderful, Jul 2019: Women to Watch: Meet the Photographer
Empowering Women to Tell Their Stories The Daily Start Lebanon, Nov. 2017: Photography helps Shatila women
break boundaries
2018 In Gdynia you will be able to see the exhibition “Women take
Other examples of simple yet impactful means of innovating pictures – Crossing Barriers”. Pictures will be available from
include the work of photojournalist Jekaterina Saveljeva in June 11.
the creation of femLENS. Dziennik Baltycki, Jun. 2017: Kobiety też robią zdjęcia. Wystawa
News24, Dec. 2018: Innovating in the fight against trafficking fotografii dokumentalnej femLENS w Gdyni
14Collaborations
Balgaddy Child & Family Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Gdynia Youth Centre, Gdynia, Poland
Gdynia Library, Gdynia, Poland
Basmeh Zeitooneh, Beirut, Lebanon
Parity NGO, Zhytomyr, Ukraine
Futuro En Femenino, Torrox, Spain
Die Lernwerkstatt, Berlin, Germany
International Women Space Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Kunst trotz(t) Ausgrenzung, Berlin, Germany
Amal Berlin, Berlin, Germany
VitaTiim, Narva, Estonia
AFMEC, Cameroon
NCCWN, Ireland
Thank you to these organisations for their
financial support!
Thomson Reuters Poland
Desdemona Club
Geomawit Printing Services
Narva City Council
Dublin South County Council
15Sponsorship opportunities
ALLY PROJECT PARTNER MAIN PARTNER
Contributor level of support for Dedicated funds for an agreed upon Close partnership enabling long-term
general femLENS activities femLENS project scope activities development
$5000 annually / TBD
$2500 annually $10000 annually
per project
Workshops x
Exhibition x
Campaigns x
Festival x
Zines
Annual magazine
Website
Social media
16www.femlens.com
info@femlens.com
www.paypal.me/femlens
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