This saturday the jury in the still picture category of the Lumix Festival met in Hamburg to select the winners of the Freelens Award for young photojournalism and the Lammerhuber Photography Award.
Jury discussion at the Freelens Gallery in Hamburg. Picture by Emile Ducke.
This year’s jury consists of
Ruth Eichhorn from Geo
Barbara Strauss from Mare
Christian-Matthias Pohlert from FAZ
Peter Bitzer from Laif
Bertram Solcher from Freelens
Søren Pagter from DMJX
The six jury members should select the winners among 60 projects, which all will be exhibited at the Lumix Festival in Hannover.
After hours of tough debate and difficult decisions the jury found this year’s winners to be announced on Saturday the 22nd of June at the Lumix Festival.
Another jury will choose the winner of the Lumix Multimedia Award among 21 multimedia stories. This winner will also be announced at the festival.
The 81 projects are chosen among more than 1000 submissions from more than 70 countries.
Six out of the 81 projects at the Lumix Festival have been made at DMJX by students of photojournalism.
The six DMJX-projects, which will be exhibited at the Lumix Festival, are:
– Vibeke and Knud by Cristina Casotto and Lani Holmberg.
– Beautiful Child by Lærke Posselt.
– A Place They Call Home by Lasse Bak Mejlvang.
– Bonnie by Marie Hald
– Detroit by Magnus Holm
– One In Eight Hundred by Mario Wezel
The list of selected picture stories can be seen here.
The list of selected multimedia stories can be seen here.