Friday the 27th of January, the small group of Photo 2 students went to Copenhagen to participate in Salih Basheer‘s book launch/exhibition and visited the daily Information, where they had talks with photographers Sigrid Nygaard and Anders Rye Skjoldjensen. »
Thursday the 26th of January, the graduation ceremony for communication, journalism and photojournalism students was held at DMJX and photojournalist Jesper Houborg received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA-project. »
15 international students will start next week at DMJX Photojournalism. Seven of these students have received scholarships to be able to study in Denmark. The ten students at Photo 1 will be:Alexandra Iulia Corcode (Romania)Laura Collard (Belgium)Mohammad Jaafer (Sudan)Leon Joshua Dreischulte (Germany)Toukir Ahmed Tanvee (Bangladesh)Tomáš Pacovský (Czech Republic)Owen Ziliak (USA)Zohreh »
With the beginning of 2023, Søren Pagter could celebrate his 25 years anniversary at DMJX. This was marked at a small informal reception in the school’s canteen on Friday the 6th of January. Søren Pagter began as a teacher of photojournalism at the Danish School of Journalism (as it was »
The nominees for the 2022 Danish POY have been announced and eight of the 27 nominees are students from DMJX. The eight nominated DMJX students are: Axel Emil Hammerbo – third term in fall 22Johanne Teglgård Olsen – final year, on leave, working for Kristeligt DagbladLiv Møller Kastrup – graduating »
Wednesday the 21st of December was the final day of the fall 2022 term and as it is a tradition, the photojournalist students gathered for a final screening day showing their projects to each other. »
Photo 2 student Sergei Stroitelev opened his exhibition Lost Light at Dokk1 on Tuesday the 20th of December. The exhibition portrays and tells the stories of Ukrainian refugee children in a camp in Moldova and it’s displayed inside a unique installation. Sergei Stroitelev graduates Photo 2 this December and made »
The Danish newspaper Berlingske has published part of Mads Joakim Rimer Rasmussen‘s book-project Vokseværk. Mads Joakim Rimer Rasmussen started his project for his BA-exam in the fall 2019. He went back to the boarding school, Fjordvang, that he himself attended ten years earlier. Over a period of one school year, »
Salih Basheer visited Narayana Press this Monday, December 5th to join the printing of his personal project “22 Days in Between”. »
Associate professor and photographer Mads Greve has published an article on DMJX’s MediaJournal, where he writes about being Analogue in a Digital Area. Mads Greve’s recent three books are all photographed with analogue cameras and in an interview about his research he says: “Analogue photography is more survivable than we »
Saturday the 26th of November, Mads Joakim Rimer Rasmussen launched the book “Vokseværk” (growth) at a reception af Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen. Mads Joakim started the project for his final BA in 2019 and continued to work on the story after his graduation. »
Nordic Journalist Center (NJC) organizes a documentary photography masterclass for 11 Nordic and Russian photographers in Istanbul from November 22nd till 30rd. The masterclass is conducted by DMJX alumni Mads Nissen and DMJX faculty teacher Mads Greve. The 11 Nordic and Russian photographers have been selected for the “Transit Istanbul” masterclass, where »
The 16th VILNIUS PHOTO CIRCLE – International photojournalism festival was held over two days on November 18th and 19th. Søren Pagter, who had been part of the festival jury, participated in the event and Mikkel Hørlyck won The Circle of Life Prize based on his long term story: Jørgen, a »
Monday, November 21st, the text book “Hvad laver jeg her?” was launched at DMJX. The book is an anthology about the use of the “I” in journalism. Gitte Luk and Søren Pagter have written a chapter about personal photography for the book. »
Wednesday November 21st, the Chai Khana X KulBroen Mentorship for young photographers visited DMJX and met with a group of DMJX students. Chai Khana X KulBroen Mentorship is a program for young photographers from Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Denmark. During the visit the young photographers met with DMJX photojournalist students to »
Friday the 11th of November, our international Photo I students launched their magazine “Common” with ten individual stories in text and pictures. »
The judging of both the multimedia and still picture categories of the 77th College Photographer of the Year has concluded at The University of Missouri in Columbia, USA. DMJX students received nine prizes in this year’s competition. Multimedia – Short documentary – FinalistA Good Day Never Returns Badly by Christian »
Friday the 21st November, DMJX opened the school to the public and to the participants at the ECREA Conference that was held in Aarhus. As part of the Impact Tour, DMJX photojournalism screened images on the roof terrace and opened a new exhibition in the school’s gallery. During the evening »
Thursday the 22nd September, DMJX students visited Copenhagen for talks by two Canon ambassadors, a guided tour of the World Press Photo exhibition and to participate in the official opening of the exhibition in Pressen, at the newspaper Politiken. »
Photo 2 student Mohamed Mahdy has, this week, been selected as finalist in both 2022 W. Eugene Smith Student Grant and winner in The Canon Student Development Programme. Mohamed Mahdy is among the four finalists for the 2022 W. Eugene Smith Student Grant with his project “Here the Doors Don’t »
