Pressefotografforbundet (The Danish Press Photographers’ association) has announced the six single images that are nominated to become the 2024 Best Press Photograph in Denmark. Two of the nominated photographers are DMJX-students Signe Lægsgaard and Martin Thomas Ford. Both nominated pictures have been made during the students’ internships.Signe Lægsgaard is currently »

Liv Latricia Habel‘s personal project “Echoes of Home” is part of the annual Spring Exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. “Through the documentation of physical spaces, “Echoes of Home” explore the diversity among the African diaspora in Denmark. As black individuals in a white society, we verify our presence a »

While attending Foto festival Manzana 1 in Bolivia this November 2024, Søren Pagter was interviewed for Slovenian radio and television. The radio interview in English is now online at Val 202 by RTV Slovenia »

The 32 photojournalism students of the spring 2025 term met Monday, January 27 for a full day of Danish “hygge” and two welcome lectures by Meli Petersson Ellafi and Tobias Nicolai. The welcome for all DMJX photojournalists started in the morning, Monday, January 27 with a mutual breakfast, where the »

Thursday, January 23 the graduation ceremony for Danish DMJX photojournalists and journalists was held at the campus in Aarhus. Emilie Toldam Futtrup received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA-project. Images from the graduation ceremony: »

World Photography Organisation has announced the only ten students worldwide who are shortlisted for the 2025 Student Competition. Fourth term DMJX student Peter Maunsbach is on the list. Peter is nominated for his ongoing project Forever to Go that he started as his First Year Project during his second term »

Friday, Januar 18, Søren Pagter attended a live debate in News & Co at the Danish broadcast television station TV2. »

The nominees for the Danish Picture of the Year 2024 have been announced. Among the total of 35 nominees are 11 DMJX students. Almost one third of the nominees at this year’s Danish Picture of the Year are DMJX students. The 11 DMJX nominees are: Cecilie Enghardt Rolvung, currently interning »

Almost 50 students, teachers and guests gathered Friday, December 20 at DMJX for the final day of the 2024 term, where the students shared their final projects with each other. »

Saturday, December 7, Photo 1 student Hassan Kamil arranged a one-day group exhibition and discussion at Cafe Mellemfolk to shed light on the current war in his home country Sudan. »

Friday, December 6, ten third term students attended a talk by Johannes Skov Andersen from Politiken at Constructive Institute in Aarhus. »

Søren Pagter has participated in the Foto Festival Manzana 1 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where he conducted a four-days workshop, gave port folio reviews and held a talk about photojournalism at DMJX. The Foto Festival Manzana 1 was held for the second time in the center of Santa Cruz, Bolivia »

Hassan Kamil has won first prize in the Photo Story Category at East African photography Award with his project “An Unexpected Tale From A No Longer Forgotten City”. Kamil’s collection of photographs are a personal story of the consequences of civil unrest through his depiction of a new life away »

Wednesday, November 13, Robert Nickelsberg visited DMJX and gave a lecture based on his recent book Legacy of Lies. Robert Nickelsberg worked as a Time magazine contract photographer for nearly thirty years, specializing in political and cultural change in developing countries. In his talk at DMJX, he showed images and talked about »

Friday, November 8, the Photo 1 class launched their magazine As Far / As Close with an exhibition and magazine reception at DMJX. The magazine As Far / As Close is made by nine international photojournalism students during a six weeks workshop at DMJX. During the first week, the students »

DMJX students win nine prizes at the still picture categories of the 79th College Photographer of the year – and as winner of the main Portfolio Category, Sahl Abdelrahman is College Photographer of the Year 2024. PortfolioGoldSahl Abdelrahman Sahl Abdelrahman is selected for our Photo 1 and 2 programmes as »

Cecilie Rolvung and Miles Lilley have won Gold in the Multimedia Short Documentary category at the 79th College Photographer of the Year. Sigrid Ellesøe and Thea Tønnesvang have won Award of Excellence in the same category. Rhiannon Johnston, who is currently an exchange student at Photo 1 DMJX, has won »

Khashayar Javanmardi (KJ) has launched his book “Caspian: A Southern Reflection”, that explores the environmental damages affecting the Caspian Sea of Iran. KJ started the project during his study at DMJX in 2019 and 2020. Loose Joints Publishing writes about the book: The Caspian Sea is bounded by Iran on »

Archibald McGill has been announced finalist in two categories for the Australian Photography Awards 2024. Archibald McGill studied at our Photo 2 programme in the spring 2024. For his final Diploma Project, he went to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia to document the anti-government protests in April/May, 2024 His project »

This week, Mikkel Hørlyck will exhibit in the containers of Copenhagen Photo Festival at Refshaleøen. The exhibition, “Human Destinies on the Edge”, is open October, 15 and 16 between 15:00 – 18:00 and again October, 20 from 12:00 to 16:00. Mikkel Hørlyck graduated from DMJX in 2021 with the story »