Sunday, the judging of the 69th CPOY contest began at Missouri University in Columbia, USA.
The three first categories to be judged were sports action, spot news and portrait and two DMJX-students won gold and silver in the portrait category:
Aleksander, 22. Picture by Jasper Bastian.
Jasper Bastian won gold with his portrait of Aleksandar Nikolic who is one of the last forty serbs, who still live in the Kosovo-Albanian capital Pristina. Jasper Bastian’s portrait is a part of his final diploma project from the fall 2013 called Across the River – Tales From a Divided City.
Niels Lykke-Sørensen from Fur. Picture by Tróndur Dalsgaard.
Tróndur Dalsgaard won silver with a portrait of Niels Lykke-Sørensen, who is one of the youngsters living on the island of Fur in Denmark. The portrait is part of a series of pictures of young people from the island and was made during a magazine workshop at DMJX in the fall 2013. The full story can be seen in the magazine Æ’ Ø’.