Kasper Løftgaard wins the Scanpix Prize

Kasper Løftgaard was awarded the Scanpix Prize for best Danish photojournalistic BA project at the graduation ceremony today.

Kasper Løftgaard received the Scanpix Prize at the graduation ceremony today. Picture by Mikkel Berg.

Kaspoer Løftgaard won with his project “Otte sekunder for resten af livet” – a story from Texas, USA about the traditional cowboy life and friendship of Shawn Hogg and Hawkins Boyce.

The story is also selected to be exhibited at the Delhi Photo Festival in the autumn 2015.

Every semester the picture agency Scanpix selects one photojournalistic story for this prize.