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. »
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 »
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. »
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 »
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art hosted on March 17 a live debate with photojournalist Sigrid Nygaard and author Klaus Rothstein on how to portray a human being. The event was arranged on the occasion of the release of the two books At Mærke Et Menneske by Mads Greve, Steffen Moestrup »
Paul-Louis Godier‘s story Nihal, Child of the Moon has been published in The Guardian, England and in L’Echo, Belgium. Nihal, Child of the Moon is the story of Nihal who is diagnosed with a rare and incurable condition. She is estimated to be 4,000 times more likely to develop skin »
Julija Stankevičiūtė’s story Every Night I Am At War that she made for her final Diploma Project in the fall 2025 is published online at Nara.lt. NARA is a space for responsible journalism in which fundamental aspects of society are examined. NARA is produced by a collective of journalists and »
DMJX students received four first prizes and three second prizes at the 2025 Danish Picture of the Year when the winners were announced at the Royal Danish Library, the Black Diamond on Friday, March 5, 2026. A ten year long project that started as a BA-project at DMJX won Long »
The three DMJX teachers Mads Greve, Steffen Moestrup and Søren Pagter officially launched their interview book AT MÆRKE ET MENNESKE (To Sense a Person) at a reception at Politikens Forlag, Thursday, March 5, 2026. Book presentation from the back cover of the bookHow do you create a portrait that really »
We’re delighted to announce the names of the 12 photographers selected from a total 91 applications for our upcoming educational programme that will run throughout 2026 in Cairo. The eduactional programme titled The Language of Photojournalism is made in co-operation with our partner Photopia Cairo and supported by the Embassy »
The International Photo 1 and the Danish second term students opened a mutual documentary exhibition at DMJX, Friday, February 27, 2026. The documentary exhibition conclude Photojournalistic Method, which is the first course of the spring 2026 term. During this course, the students have received various lectures, participated in discussions and »
Mikkel Hørlyck gave a lecture about his ongoing work in Ukraine for DMJX journalism and photojournalism students on Friday, February 28, 2026. »
Lamees Saleh Sharf Eldin‘s project Indefinitely has received the Tasweer Project Award and has been exhibited at both LagosPhoto and Image Festival Amman in 2025. Tasweer Project Award 2025 Established by Qatar Museums, Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar is being developed as a focal point for the personal and professional creative »
This week, Zifan Zhang has received an Award of Excellence in the Portrait Category at the 83rd Pictures of the Year International (POYi). Zifan Zhang has received the prize at POYi with the above portrait which is a part of his project Being Young in Latvia. The project was made »
During the past week, DMJX alumnus and World Press Photo winner Mohamed Mahdy has been back in Aarhus to present his book Here, the Doors Don’t Know Me and to give a talk to the current DMJX students. On Friday, February 13, Galleri Image organized a book launch of Mohamed »
As part of their course Learning about the Media Industry, the Danish fourth term students have been on a two-days study trip to Hamburg together with Søren Pagter. During the two days, they visited two exhibitions, attended a talk with photographer Alexandra Polina and visited the newspaper Die Zeit, where »
