The Danish Picture of the Year opened today at the arts museum ARoS in Aarhus. The Aarhus municipality had decided to honor the talented DMJX-students by handing out prizes to eight of the 12 nominated students.
Last week, four out the 12 nominated DMJX-students won first prizes at the offical award ceremony in Copenhagen. Today, the eight students, who didn’t win a first prize, received a prize handed out by Councilman Rabih Azad-Ahmad.
At the opening Rabih Azad-Ahmad said: “it’s impressive how students from DMJX every year win prizes at the POY. It shows great talent and big ambitions among the students and it shows that we have a school of high quality here in Aarhus.”
Prize-winning picture by Michael Hansen.
The eight students who recieved a prize today are:
Sofia Busk, currently interning at Jyllands-Posten
Michael Hansen, currently interning at Jyllands-Posten
Daniel Hjorth, currently interning at Politiken.
Mathias Christensen, graduated in sommer 2013.
Paw Gissel and Thomas Emil Sørensen, currently interning at Kristeligt Dagblad and Jyllands-Posten
Andreas Beck. 7 term student
Mie Brinkmann, final term student