At the dimission ceremony today, Lasse Mejlvang received the Scanpix Prize for the best photojournalistic BA-project.
Lasse Mejlvang was not able to be at the award Ceremony, so he sent a video message instead. Picture by Mads Greve.
Lasse Mejlvang received the prize for his project “A place they call home” about the 16 year old refugee, Remzi Baftijari, who’ve been deported from Denmark to Kosovo.
“My body is in Kosovo. My mind is not”, says Remzi in the project by Lasse Mejlvang. Picture by Lasse Mejlvang.
The project has just been exhibited at the Lumix Festival in Hannover.
Lasse Mejlvang graduated with the story in January 2014, but back then only two students were ready to graduate their BA exam. Therefore the Scanpix prize wasn’t handed out in January.
At the end of each semester Scanpix celebrates the photojournalists by giving a prize to the best BA-project of the semester. It’s the staff at Scanpix who select the Scanpix winner on the basis of nominations from the teachers.