Normally, we only post news about DMJX students, DMJX projects and life at the school, but some news are simply so big that we need to post them on our website.
Danish photographer Mads Nissen has today won World Press Photo of the year 2014 with the picture of Jon and Alex – a homosexual couple living in St. Petersborg, Russia. The picture is a part of Mads Nissen’s story about the living conditions for LGBT people in Russia.
Mads Nissen’s picture winning the World Press Photo of 2014.
Mads Nissen started the project about LGBT people when he was working as mentor at a Russian master class workshop arranged by the Nordic Journalist Centre and DMJX.
Mads Nissen is a part of the group of censors at DMJX – in fact he was the censor at the exam for our first year students this January. Mads Nissen is also occasionally working as a guest lecturer at DMJX.