Out of 35 submitted projects, we’re happy to announce the four projects nominated for the 2026 ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award. Each nominated project will receive 30,000 Danish Kroner and the overall winner will receive additional 70,000 Danish Kroner. Each project will be presented and the main winner will be announced at »
Together with eight other photographers, faculty teacher Søren Pagter is exhibiting as part of Randers Festival Week at the small, local workshop and gallery Sorte Streger. Pagter is presenting his recent book Poland Journal and exhibiting pictures from it. The exhibition is open every day from 11-16 till Sunday, August »
Florine Schmid and Marie Ruwet, who won the ECCA – DMJX Photojournalism Award in 2024, are currently exhibiting their project Staying or Leaving Home at Aarhus Public Library – Dokk1. Florine Schmid and Marie Ruwet travelled together to Saqqaq, a remote settlement in northwestern Greenland, that is shaped by change. »
Thursday, July 2, 2026, DMJX faculty teacher Søren Pagter held a public talk at Photopia in Cairo, where he for the first time presented his dummy book Poland Journal. The talk was made possible by the support of the Embassy of Denmark in Cairo. Poland Journal62 images7 dairy texts in »
Last week, Søren Pagter conducted the workshop Photojournalist Method as the second in a series of four DMJX workshops in Cairo made in co-operation with our partner Photopia Cairo and supported by the Embassy of Denmark in Cairo. The aim of the programmne is to educate 12 selected Egyptian photographers in the language »
The Shifting Grounds exhibition produced by the Danish fourth term students in the spring 2025 is currently on display at Aarhus Public Library – Dokk1. Shifting Grounds is a group exhibition and a magazine made by 11 fourth term students during a workshop in the spring 2025, where the students »
Friday, June 12, the DMJX fourth term students welcomed around 300 guests for the opening their exhibition Crossroads at Copenhagen Photo Festival. The exhibition can be seen till June 17, 2026 at Refshaleøen, Copenhagen. CrossroadsAt certain points in life, we move forward without a clear map of what comes next. »
The Photo 1 and Danish second term students concluded the spring 2026 term with the launch of two magazines and a mutual exhibition at DMJX Wednesday, June 10, 2026. Images from the layout process of both magazines Images from receiving the printed magazines and preparing the exhibition Images from the »
Zohre Sadati has exhibited her personal projects made at DMJX in 2023 as part of a huge exhibition at Galarie du Montparnasse, Paris in May 2026. Zohreh Sadati was as an ECCA scholarship student in 2023 where she graduated both our Photo 1 and Photo 2 programmes. During her study »
Abul Hayat Rahadh‘s story Chitra has been selected as runner-up in The 2026 Alexia Conservation Student Grant sponsored by the Fstop Foundation. The project Chitra documents the impact of deer poaching in the Sundarbans mangrove forest, linking biodiversity loss to climate vulnerability. By focusing on forest-edge communities, the project reveals »
Zifan Zhang‘s project Being Young in Latvia is among the only ten stories shortlisted in the student category for the 2026 World Report Award documenting humanity. Zifan was an ECCA-scholarship student at DMJX throughout 2025 and has graduated both Photo 1 and 2 at DMJX. He made Being Young in »
Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann‘s DMJX projects Kystland (Coastal Land) and Gennem Øjetræet (Through the Eye Tree) are part of the curated exhibition The Earth Beneath Our Feet displayed at Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen till August 16, 2026. The exhibition brings together works by the two photographers and visual artist Christina Capetillo »
Mohamed Mahdy is exhibiting his personal project 455 Days at Gallery Image in Aarhus till June 28, 2026. Mahdy started the project as his Visual Project during his Photo 2 study at DMJX in 2022. In 2020, Mohamed Mahdy was in military service, which is mandatory for serviceable Egyptian men. »
The video documentary A Way Out by Hussein Ali Kazem & Emil Mogensen has been selected for OFF – Odense International Film Festival 2026. Hussein Ali Kazem & Emil Mogensen made the documentary during a third term video documentary workshop with teacher Heidi Skibsted at DMJX in the fall 2025. »
August Vinther received Kravlingprisen at an award ceremony May 13, 2026 for his BA-project Drømme som kvinde (Dreams of a Woman) made at DMJX in the fall 2025. August Vinther received Kravlingprisen for his BA-project Drømme som Kvinde (Dreams of a Woman) where he follows Olivia before and after a »
This week, Mads Greve conducts the first of a series of four DMJX workshops in Cairo made in co-operation with our partner Photopia Cairo and supported by the Embassy of Denmark in Cairo. The aim of the programmne is to educate 12 selected Egyptian photographers in the language of photojournalism. The programme will »
DMJX graduates Mohammad Jaafer and Salih Basheer have each published personal books about their home country Sudan. Teacher at DMJX Søren Pagter has been working together with both photographers during the editing and design processes of the books. Mohammad Jaafer launched his book The Scent of Earth after Rain with »
Nichlas Pollier‘s BA-project Far From the Front Line. Teenagers Prepare for War was published in Politiken both on print and online on April 6, 2026. Nichlas made the story about a military high school in Lviv, Ukraine in the fall 2025. »
In 2015, during his study at DMJX, Roger Anis made the personal project A Blessed Marriage. Now, he and his former wife have collaborated on a development of the project with the new title A Blessed Marriage / Divorce. This new project has been exhibited at Rotterdam Photo Festival from »
We are proud and excited to announce that the ECCA Family Foundation will sponsor the ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award for the third time. The award is designed to support DMJX student projects and with it’s major economical prizes it is among the most valuable in the world. In a time where »
