Today, the Danish World Press Winner Mads Nissen gave a welcoming lecture for all our photojournalist students.
Mads Nissen preparing for his lecture in the auditorium at DMJX.
Picture by Søren Pagter.
Mads Nissen showed his prize winning story “Homofobia in Russia” and talked about his way into photojournalism and how important the trust of our media is.
He also shared his way of research and editing process with the students.
Mads Nissen is a former DMJX-student and graduated ten years ago with his BA-project “Amazonas” – a project, which he continued after his graduation and, which came out as a book by the same name two years ago.
Patrick Brown speaking at DMJX today. Picture by Søren Pagter.
Mads Nissen’s colleague from Panos Agency, Patrick Brown had followed Mads to the lecture at the school. As an extra bonus for the students, Patrick Brown also gave a short lecture about his prize winning project “Trading to Extinction”.
Patrick Brown is an Australian photographer, based in Bangkok.