DMJX students selected for Young Danish Photography exhibition

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Each year since 1998, the Danish exhibition place Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen hosts the exhibition Young Danish Photography that highlights new talents and trends within Danish photography. The 2023 exhibition includes DMJX alumni Louise Herrche Serup, Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker and Salih Basheer.

Young Danish Photography at Fotografisk Center.
Photo: Troels Jeppe, Fotografisk Center.

Louise Herrche Serup and Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker are exhibiting their final BA-project You Still Don’t Know My Name from 2021 as part of the Young Danish exhibition.

You Still Don’t Know My Name is huge project that that foucusses on migrant sex workers and potential victims of human trafficking in Denmark. The two photographers received the ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award for this project.

Opening reception of Young Danish Photography on Friday, November 10 at Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen. Photo: Troels Jeppe, Fotografisk Center.
The exhibiting photographers at the opening of Young Danish Photography. From right it is Louise Herrche Serup and Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker. Second from left it is Salih Basheer.
Photo: Troels Jeppe, Fotografisk Center.
The You Still Don’t Know My Name project is placed in the center of the exhibition hall.
Photo from the opening by: Nanna Navntoft.
Salih Basheer’s installation shows a picture from his on-going project The Silence Breakers.
Salih Basheer started the project before joining DMJX from where he graduated in the spring 2021. Photo from the exhibition opening by: Troels Jeppe, Fotografisk Center.
Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker and Salih Basheer in front of the You Still Don’t Know My Name exhibition. Photo: Nanna Navntoft.

Pictures of the exhibitions:

You Still Don’t Know My Name by Louise Herrche Serup and Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker.
Photo: Troels Jeppe, Fotografisk Center.
You Still Don’t Know My Name by Louise Herrche Serup and Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker.
Photo: Louise Herrche Serup.
You Still Don’t Know My Name by Louise Herrche Serup and Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker.
Photo: Troels Jeppe, Fotografisk Center.
Salih Basheer’s installation. Photo: Troels Jeppe, Fotografisk Center.

This 2023 edition of Young Danish Photography is curated by Fotografisk Center in co-operation with Cecilie Skovdal Stephansen og Linnea Frandsen from Atla.