Today the results of the Danish Picture of the Year 2009 was announced at an award ceremony at Den Sorte Diamant in Copenhagen. Five students were among the winners:
– Rasmus Flindt Pedersen, who i currently at internship at Ekstra Bladet, won the first Prize in the category Portraits.
– Kristian Djurhuus won a first prize in the Open Category. Kristian Djurhuus got his BA exam in the summer 2009 and is now a staff photographer at MetroXpress.
– Lærke Posselt received a second prize in the category Danish Reportage. Lærke Posselt’s winning story was made during her second semester at the school. She has just begun her internship at Politiken.
– Lea Meilandt Mathiesen received a second prize in the category International Reportage for a story that she made as her final BA project in the summer 2009.
– Jonathan Bjerg-Møller won the second prize in the Multimedia category. Jonathan Bjerg-Møller is currently working on his BA-project.
Press Photographer of the Year 2009 was awarded to Mads Nissen, who also is a former student from our programme and who is working as a guest lecturer teaching our students of photojournalism.
We’ve made a website showing the students’ winning pictures.
And you can read about the Danish Picture of the Year 2009 and see all the winning images here.