Florine Schmid og Marie Ruwet were announced the winners of the ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award at the award ceremony at DMJX Friday, August 30, 2024. With the main prize comes 100,000 Danish Kroner to fulfill their award winning project. The three runner-ups each receive 30,000 Danish Kroner for their projects.
Marie Ruwet (left) and Florine Schmid won the 2024 ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award Friday, August 30. Photo: Signe Bech Søholt
“The winning project highlights the resilience of a small community and grabs our attention to our loss of culture, community, and connection to nature, when the small communities and villages disappear. The project shows the problem and solution in fine beautiful images that make me want to go there and disconnect from our modernized world and fast way of living”. – Heba Khamis, jury member and visual researcher
“Photography is not merely a tool to document what surrounds us – it’s an invitation to step into the lives of others, to connect with them, and to share a moment of their reality. With the trust and support of ECCA and DMJX, we have the opportunity to embrace this approach through slow and thoughtful journalism. It allows us to spend valuable time in this village: breathing its air, touching its realities, living its moments, before capturing them with our cameras”. – Florine Schmid and Marie Ruwet, ECCA-DMJX Award winners
Before the main winner was announced, the nominees presented their projects to the DMJX photojournalism students.
Liv Møller Kastrup (left) and Rikke Kjær Poulsen’s project Do You See, What I See portrays in images and texts the moods and feelings of different people while they were in the grip of psychosis. Rikke and Liv made their project for their final BA in the fall 2022 and they graduated in January 2023.Photo: Signe Bech Søholt/DMJXMohamed Mahdy’s project Here, The Doors Don’t Know Meis an interactive webpage, where he collaborates with the inhabitants from El Max, a fishing neighbourhood in Alexandria, Egypt in telling about the historical place before it will be demolished. Mohamed began the project prior to his study at DMJX, but during his time at the school in 2022, he added a story about Tamer and expanded the webpage with more archive material and handwritten letters. Photo: Signe Bech Søholt/DMJXFlorine Schmid (left) and Marie Ruwet’s projectWith Nature on Our Side unfolds in photos and text the life in the most remote village of Árneshreppurin Iceland.Marie and Florine made the story during the magazine workshop at Photo 1 in the spring 2024. Photo: Signe Bech Søholt/DMJXChristian Falck Wolff’s project Generation Climate will cover how various young people around Europe in different ways take action and fight for the climate. The first chapters are from the towns of Lützerath and Grünheide in Germany. Christian made the story from Lützerath during his holiday in January 2023 and he graduated his BA in January 2024. Photo: Signe Bech Søholt/DMJX
Images from the award ceremony
Florine Schmid and Marie Ruwet in the moment when they were announced winners of the 2024 ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award. Photo: Signe Bech Søholt/DMJXAlex Rune Dahdorph from ECCA Family Foundation handed over the prize diplomas to Marie Ruwet and Florine Schmid. The two photographers will spend the money to continue their project With Nature on Our Side about the remote village Árneshreppur on Iceland. Photo: Signe Bech Søholt/DMJXFlorine Schmid and Marie Ruwet making a selfie with their diplomas. Photo: Alex Rune Dahdorph/ECCA Family FoundationRunner-up Mohamed Mahdy (right) receiving his prize diploma from Søren Pagter, head of DMJX Photojournalism.Photo: Signe Bech Søholt/DMJXRunner-ups Rikke Kjær Poulsen and Liv Møller Kastrup (right) getting a congratulations hug from Søren Pagter. Photo: Signe Bech Søholt/DMJXChristian Falck Wolff (right) receiving his runner-up prize diploma. Photo: Signe Bech Søholt/DMJXAfter the award ceremony, a reception was held at the roof terrace of DMJX in Aarhus. Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJXInternational photo 1 students in conversation with prize winner Florine Schmid (right) and student coordinator Anna Nejrup (middle) at the award reception.Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJXThe winners and runner-ups of the 2024 ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award. From left: Florine Schmid, Marie Ruwet, Mohamed Mahdy, Christian Falck Wolff, Liv Møller Kastrup and Rikke Kjær Poulsen. Photo: Signe Bech Søholt/DMJX
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