Today the winners of the Danish Press Photography of the Year 2010 were announced at an award ceremony at the National Library in Copenhagen.
DSMJ sponsors prizes for two of the winning photographers in the competition. Ass. professor Mads Greve and Head of the Dep. of Photojournalism Søren Pagter motivated and handed out prizes in the categories Portrait and Interactive Multimedia.
Roberto Boccaccino, a former international student of ours, won first prize in the portrait category. This is the first time an international student wins a prize in the Danish competition. Mads Greve called Robeto Boccaccino the hottest Italian in Danish photography right now and praised him for an interesting and mysterious portrait.
Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov won both first and second prizes in Interactive Multimedia. In his speech, Søren Pagter, praised them for their continues work in developing this media and he called on other photographers to take up the challenges with this young media. Just like he asked the media to be more open towards using mulitmedia story telling.
All the winners of this year’s Danish POY can be seen at the website of the Danish Press Photographers’ Association.