Abul Hayat Rahadh runner-up in The Alexia Conservation Student Grant

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 shortlisted for 2026 World Report Award

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 exhibits at Fotografisk Center

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 back in Aarhus to exhibit personal project

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. »

August Vinther has won Kravlingprisen

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 »

The DMJX educational programme in Cairo has begun

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 »

Søren Pagter edited two books by Sudanese photographers

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 published in Politiken

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. »

Roger Anis exhibited personal project at Rotterdam Photo Festival

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 »

The ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award calls for applications again

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 »

Debate about portraying a human being

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 published in The Guardian and L’Echo

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 Diploma Project published at Nara.lt

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 »

Book reception for new text book on portrait photography

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 »

Announcing the selectees for the 2026 DMJX educational programme in Cairo

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 »

Documentary exhibition by International and Danish students

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 lecture at DMJX

Mikkel Hørlyck gave a lecture about his ongoing work in Ukraine for DMJX journalism and photojournalism students on Friday, February 28, 2026. »