DMJX students selected for PhMuseum’s Graduates to Watch

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Each year, the website PhMuseum selects photography graduates in order to display talent from the World’s photography schools. DMJX graduates Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker and Louise Herrche Serup are among PhMuseum’s 14 graduates to watch in 2021 with their BA-project “You still don’t know my name”.

I have been in Denmark for six months. The first months I didn’t do sex work. But then I began. I can’t stay if I don’t work.
Photo: Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker and Louise Herrche Serup

Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker and Louise Herrche Serup’s BA-project as it was handed in for their BA-exam.

“You still don’t know my name” is a huge book that foucusses on migrant sex workers and potential victims of human trafficking in Denmark. Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker and Louise Herrche Serup made the project for their final BA-exam in the spring 2021.

The two photographers received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for best photojournalist BA-project at the graduation ceremony in June 2021.

“In Lithuania I have a 14-year old daughter. I told her that I work with rich men. Kids are not stupid. She sees that I have underwear and robes, so I can’t tell her that I work at a bar, because I bring so much money home that they would never believe me. I bought two apartments in Lithuania, so how would they believe that I work at a restaurant?
So I told them that I work with very rich men, that I sometimes have sex with. I don’t tell them that I have 10 customers a day”.
Photo: Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker and Louise Herrche Serup

Tripty Tamang Pakhrin, graduate from Photo Circle in Nepal, is also among the 14 selected photographers. Tripty was an exchange student at DMJX in the fall 2019.