This afternoon the award ceremony for the Danish POY was held at the National Library in Copenhagen and here the winners of the different categories were announced.
Seven DMJX-students were already nominated for the Danish POY. Four of them ended up winning first prizes in three different categories.
Screen-shot from the prize winning story Return to Infancy by Louise Koustrup and Kenneth Koustrup.
Louise Koustrup and Kenneth Koustrup won first prize in the Open Category for video/web. Louise and Kenneth won for their story Return to Infancy made during their third term video documentary workshop.
It is the third time in a row that students form this particular workshop win first prizes at the Danish POY.
One of the pictures from Kasper Løftgaard’s prize winning rodeo story. Photo by Kasper Løftgaard.
Kasper Løftgaard won first prize in the Sport Reportage category for a selection of pictures from his final BA-project. Kasper made the story about the traditional, rodeo cowboys in the spring 2015 and graduated in June 2015. At that time, Kasper also won the Scanpix prize for best photojournalistic BA-project.
A picture from Michael Drost-Hansen’s story E45. Photo by Michael Drost-Hansen.
One more newly graduated DMJX-student won a first prize. Michael Drost-Hansen won first prize in the Danish News Picture category for his story È45 about refugees entering Denmark by following the main E45 highway towards Sweden. Among the pictures in Michael’s series is the famous picture of a Danish policeman playing with a refugee child in the middle of the highway. Michael also graduated in June 2015, but made his prize winning story in the autumn. So even though Michael was a student in 2015, we can’t name this a DMJX-project.
The other three nominated DMJX-students will have their pictures shown at the Danish POY exhibition, which will present both the winners and the runner-ups from this year’s competition.
The other DMJX-students, who were selected are:
Picture from Janus Engel’s series from Langeland. Photo by Janus Engel.
Janus Engel was runner-up in the Danish Reportage category for at story from the Island Langeland. Janus made the story during his internship at Politiken and he is now back at school doing his final year.
Cliff Diving from the National Opera in Copenhagen. Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen.
First term student Mads Claus Rasmussen was runner-up in the Sports Action category for a picture from a Cliff Diving competition.
Festival picture selected for Danish Everyday Life category. Photo by Mathias Svold.
Mathias Svold was runner-up in the Danish Everyday Life category for a festival picture.
The news about the DMJX winners is on the official DMJX webpage.
You can see and read about all the Danish POY winners at the Press Photographers Association’s official webpage.