Charlotte de la Fuente received the Scanpix Prize for best Danish photojournalistic BA-project at today’s demission ceremony.
Søren Pagter handed out the Scanpis Prize to Charlotte de la Fuente. Photo by Vibeke Volder
Charlotte won with her project “A Chinese Game of Luck” – stories from the gambling city Macao in China.
The picture editors from Scanpix motivated the prize by stating that Charlotte’s beautiful pictures told the story about the luck, which ran out. And that the project also succeded due to the presentation and the context.
The graduation speech for all journalism and photojournalism students was held by the prize winning Danish photographer Jan Grarup.
Jan Grarup held the graduation speech at today’s demission ceremony. Photo by Vibeke Volder.
Grarup talked about how the fast forward button has got stuck in today’s media and he encouraged the students to take a stand and do stories, which were important to the public.