Sille Veilmark and Sofie Mathiassen received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize

At the graduation ceremony today, Sille Veilmark and Sofie Mathiassen received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for best Danish photojournalistic BA-project. The two photographers received the prize for their book 1°C, which tells about the various consequences of the global climate changes in Denmark. Three projects were nominated for the prize. »

Mikkel Hørlyck has won second prize at PX3

Mikkel Hørlyck has won silver for his story The Neclegted in the Feature category at PX3 – Prix de la Photographie, Paris. The Neclegted is the story about an orphanage in the city of Orhei in Moldova, which is the residence of some 200 boys and men, who are physically »

Lukas Kreibig has won Flash Forward Award 2019

Lukas Kreibig has won the climate category in The Magenta Foundation‘s Flash Forward Award. Lukas Kreibig has won the prize with his long term project “The Heart of a Seal” about the life in Uummannaq, Greenland, an island town off the country’s western coast. Lukas started the project as his »

DMJX students at festival workshop

9 DMJX students are currently participating in workshops with photographers Sanne de Wilde and Filippo Venturi as a part of the Copenhagen Photo Festival. The 9 participating students are Katinka Klinge Albrectsen, Deepti Asthana, Sophie Voisin, Shirin Abedi, Aleksander Klug, Andreas Haubjerg, Jens Hartmann Schmidt, Maria Albrechtsen Mortensen and Nanna »

A New Home

VIDEO DOCUMENTARY by Deepti Asthana and Michelle Hanks – made during the Photo I programme in the spring 2019. Mahmoud Bayragdar, 29, lived a good and comfortable life back in Damascus, Syria. But in 2011 he had to flee because of the Syrian civil war. Three years later, Mahmoud found »

1C

BOOK PROJECT by Sofie Mathiassen and Sille Veilmark made as their final BA project in the spring 2019 at DMJX. The average world temperature has risen above 1°C over the last century. Everywhere on earth the climate is changing. The Paris agreement, signed by the world leaders in 2015, put »

Final screening day

Around 40 DMJX students gathered today for our traditional final screening day, where the students from different groups showed their projects to one another. »

May I have this Dance?

STILL PICTURE STORY by Shirin Abedi – made in the spring 2019 as her final Photo Story during Photo I at DMJX. In a long red dress with a small crown in her hair, Mojdeh dances in front of a red curtain in the cheer of a female audience in »

DMJX at Matera European Photography

Last week Laura Bisgaard Krogh and Mads Greve were in Matera in Southern Italy. They were invited by Matera European Photography and Canon for a residency where Laura worked on a photographic series about young Italian women and Mads gave a talk about his photographic work. Matera is the European »

DMJX at Copenhagen Photo Festival

Thursday the 6th of June, Copenhagen Photo Festival will begin and more than 20 DMJX students and their projects will be a part of the festival. SOLO EXHIBITIONS: Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann’s Coastland project will be exhibited at Broens Gadekøkken and Kulturtårnet at Knippelsbro. The two photographers will give »

Benjamin Nørskov exhibits EPA Sweden at Värmland’s Museum

Benjamin Nørskov opened his exhibition “EPA Sweden” at Värmland’s Museum in Karlstad Saturday the 1st of June. The exhibition is a part of the opening of the newly renovated museum and more than 3,000 people visited the exhibition and museum on the first day of the opening weekend. »