Today, the winners of the Danish Picture of the year 2013 were announced at the award ceremony in the National Library in Copenhagen.
Twelve – or more than one third of the total number of nominated photographers at this years competition – were DMJX students.
Four out of the twelve students ended up winning first prizes at the Danish POY. All four of them ar from the same calls and attend the same semester.
The four DMJX winners are:
Picture by Tor Birk Trads
Tor Birk Trads, currently interning at Information.
Peter Klint, currently interning at Politiken.
Charlotte de la Fuente and Jonas Olufsson, currently interning at Jylland-Posten and Ekstra-Bladet.
The other DMJX-students represented at the Danish POY 2013 are:
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
Sofia Busk, currently interning at Jyllands-Posten
Michael Hansen, currently interning at Jyllands-Posten
Mie Brinkman, final term student
You can see all the winning images from DMJX at the schools official website.
All winners and nominated photographers will have their pictures exhibited at the travelling exhibition and their work will be published in the book showing the best of Danish photojournalism from 2013.
Read more about the other winners at the Danish POY 2013 at www.pressefotografforbundet.dk.