This afternoon the winners of the Danish Picture of the Year 2014 were announced at the award cermony at the National Library in Copenhagen.
12 DMJX-students out of a total of 36 nominated photographers were nominated for the Danish POY.
All three prizes in the multimedia category were won by DMJX-students – even students from the class.
First prize in multimedia was given to Petra Theibel and Mathias Svold for their story “Congratulations, It’s a Reborn”.
Screendump from the prize-winning story ““Congratulations, It’s a Reborn” by Petra Theibel and Mathias Svold. Click to watch.
The two honorable mentions in the same category were given to
– Anders Rye Skjold Jensen and Katrine Marie Kragh for their story “The Egostripper”.
– Philip Davali, Mie Hee og Ulrik Hasemann for their story “An Ordinary Family”.
All three stories have been made in the fall 2014 during a workshop at DMJX with Bombay Flying Club.
The other DMJX-winners announced today were:
Asger Ladefoged – Winner in the category “Foreign Reportage”. Asger Ladefoged graduated in 2014 and got a job at Scanpix/Berlingske straight after his graduation. Asger has made his prize winning story about refugees in Calais as his first international assignment as a staff photographer for Scanpix/Berlingske.
Sofia Busk – Honorable mention in the “Open Category”. Sofia has just returned to 7th semester after doing her internship at Jyllands-Posten, where she made her prize winning story from an institution for alcholics called E-Huset.
Daniel Hjorth – Honorable mention in the category “Danish Reportage”. Daniel is currently doing his internship at Politiken, where he made his prize winning story about homeless youngsters in Copenhagen.
Kasper Palsnov – Honorable mention in the category “Danish News Picture”. Kasper has just returned to 7th semester after doing his internship at Scanpix/Berlingske for whom he took his prize winning picture of the giraffe Marius, which was killed at Copenhagen Zoo.
Janus Engel Rasmussen – Honorable mention in the “Portrait” category. Janus is currently doing his internship at Politiken, for whom he took his prize winning portrait of Maia, who was born as a man, but has lived the past year as a women.