DMJX students have won four First Prizes, two Finalist Places and two Award of Excellences in the still picture and video categories at the 81st College Photographer of the Year. The DMJX winners are: Dicte SønnichsenWinner of the Alexia/CPOY Project Grant Sanne Houwers and Rosa HuuskaWinners in Multimedia Documentary Frederik »

DMJX seventh term students gave talks and showed their projects at Fotografisk Salon in Aarhus, Monday evening, October 19, 2026. Fotografisk Salon is a mixed group of photographers from Aarhus, who meet once a month for lectures about photography. »

In the last week of August 2026, Gitte luk conducted the workshop ‘Writing for Photojournalists’ as the third 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 Egypt. The aim of the DMJX educational programme is to »

Emilie Toldam‘s project Miss Vogue that won an honorable mention at UNICEF Foto des Jahres 2025 is currently exhibited at Stadtmuseum Schleswig together with all the other UNICEF winners. »

As part of the Aarhus Festival Week, DMJX Photo 1 students opened the exhibition Aarhus Portraits, Friday September 4, 2026 at the public library, Dokk1. All portraits were photographed in the streets of Aarhus the day before. The exhibition is open till Thursday, September 16. From the morning Thursday, September 3, »

Fotografisk Center celebrates their 30-years anniversary with a group exhibition showing work by 12 Danish and Nordic photographers. DMJX graduate Rosaline Ben-Baruch Lange is part of the exhibition with her story Vrajitoare that she made during her fourth term study in the spring 2023. »

Dicte Sønnichsen was announced the winner of the 2026 ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award at the award ceremony at DMJX Tuesday, August 25, 2026. With the main prize comes 100,000 Danish Kroner to continue her project Untamed Lands. The three runner-up projects by Sigrid Ellesøe, Thea Tønnesvang, Zifan Zhang and August Vinther »

Rehab Eldalil, Egyptian photographer and teacher gave the welcome lecture for the nearly 50 students of the fall 2026 term on Tuesday, August 25, 2026. »

Photo 2 student and ECCA scholarship recipient Sadiq Al-Harasi is one of the ten winners of the Tasweer Project Award 2026 grants. Sadiq receives the award based on his long-term project What Do Fathers Leave Behind? Sadiq receives a grant of 30,000 QAR to support the initiation, further development or »

Emil Mogensen and Hussein Ali Kazem‘s movie A Way Out is among the only 24 documentary film selected for OFF – Odense International Film Festival. Elias from Vollsmose, Odense, Denmark has just started his professional boxing career with five fights and five wins, but behind the victories are consistent opt-outs. »

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 »