Monday, the judging of the CPOY 2014 began at Missouri University in USA where the categories Sports Action, Sports Feature and Portrait were the first categories to be judged.
Three DMJX students won in the portrait category and one student won in the Sports Feature.
Cecile Baudier, who’s doing her internship at Jyllands-Posten, won Bronze with this portrait:
This is Ida. She recently moved to Denmark from Greenland with her mother, in search of a job and hopefully an easier life. They are now living in a housing project outside of the city of Aarhus, Denmark. She is one out of approximately 18.000 people from Greenland, who are living in Denmark today. Picture by: Cecile Baudier.
Daniel Hjorth and Lars Just, both interning at Politiken, won Award of excellence in the portrait category.
Magnus Holm, who’s in his final year, won bronze in the Sports Feature category. Last year, Magnus won college photographer of the year and he’s right now interning at National Geograpic – an internship he won as a part of the prize last year.
PKK-members are playing volleyball at a secret destination in the Qandil Mountains of Northern Iraq. Volleyball is their favorite game, as they can always have the net and the ball with them when they travel from place to place. PKK is Kurdistans Workers’ Party. It is an armed guerrilla organization who operates in the mountains of Northern Iraq. They are listed as a terrorist organization by countries and organizations such as the United Nations, NATO and the United States of America. Picture by Magnus Holm.
The judging will continue throughout the whole week. You can see screencasts of the judging here.