The five pictures nominated for Best Danish Press Photo of the Year 2025 have been announced and DMJX students Dicte Sønnichsen and Nichlas Pollier are among the candidates to win the prize.
It’s 2:00 p.m., and eight year-old Alice gets off the school bus in front of her home just outside Svendborg, Denmark. She is wearing a school bag and her beloved cat ears. Now the regular afternoon routine begins, because after school she needs peace and quiet most of all. According to studies from the Ministry of Children and Education, 52,000 children suffered from school refusal in 2025. To avoid Alice becoming a number in the static, the family uprooted and moved from Copenhagen to Svendborg to ensure that she received the right special education. In parent circles for children with special needs, it is called ‘municipal shopping’.Photo: Dicte Marie Hostrup Sønnichsen/ DMJX/ Dagbladet Information/Årets Pressefoto 2025.
Dicte Sønnichsen is nominated for her above picture of Alice, who suffers from school refusal. Dicte made the picture during her current internship at the newspaper Information.
Nichlas Pollier is nominated for the image below, that is part of his BA-project about an Ukrainian high school where young people get military training. Nichlas graduated in January 2026.
Seven DMJX students are nominated in the various categories of the 2025 Danish Picture of the Year. All the winners will be announced March 6, 2026 at the National Library in Copenhagen.“I applied for the army due to my father,” says 15-year-old Yura Kirmarov. His father had a completely normal job as an operator in a metal goods factory in Lviv before the war. In 2023, he was mobilized as a border guard to the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. He only managed to fight for five months before he was killed on January 26, 2024. Yura visits his father’s grave every weekend. “I was very close with my father,” he says. “My mother is the only one I have now. When I need to be alone, I listen to music and come here to talk to my dad.” Photo: Nichlas Pollier/DMJX/freelance Årets Pressefoto 2025.
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