DMJX students win nine prizes at the still picture categories of the 79th College Photographer of the year – and as winner of the main Portfolio Category, Sahl Abdelrahman is College Photographer of the Year 2024.
Barber shop on the last day of Ramadan holy month in Fayoum City while barbers hair cut ofyouth to preparation for Eid Al-Fitr. Fayoum, Egypt 2024. Photo: Sahl Abdelrahman – from his portfolio collection that consists of 19 single images and three series.
Sahl Abdelrahman is selected for our Photo 1 and 2 programmes as a scholarship student supported by ECCA Family Foundation. He has also participated in and fulfilled the DMJX educational programme in Cairo, Egypt in 2021 and 2022.
As the winner of the portfolio category, Sahl Abdelrahman will join Reuters for 12-week paid internship.
Two years passed when Silje Laugen Sørensen didn’t really show up at all. Only to move her body from the bed to the couch. Once in a while out into the kitchen to smoke a cigarette under the hood. Or to go for a walk with her beloved dog, Bailey. Two years when dark thoughts dominated Silje’s mind. Thoughts that had propagated since her childhood, when an early teacher and an educator thought they should cut it out of cardboard for her. That she was inept. That she would never amount to anything. But the two years have gradually grown apart. In powerlessness, Silje could fuss over the smallest things. Aggressive behavior it was called by the adults around her. That this kind of outburst now happens very rarely, she thanks, among other things, the ADHD medication she has started taking. And then she thanks the program Football for the Future – a program for long-term unemployed young people who find it difficult to get up and start life. “Now there are people around me who believe in me and who tell me that it’s okay to make mistakes, that I have value and that I’m not incompetent,” says Silje. Photo: Emilie Toldam Futtrup.
Emilie Toildam Futtrup is currently working on her final BA-project and will graduate in January 2025. The winning image is made during her internship at Jyllands-Posten.
“Don’t let ’em break your spirit.” – Mervyn Lewers. For 30 years (1968-1998) the bloody civil war known as The Troubles raged in Northern Ireland. A young Mervyn Lewers proudly wore his green uniform for the pro-British police force in his hometown of Londonderry. One late evening in May 1988, his life exploded beneath him. A member of the Irish Republican Army(IRA) had been shadowing him and waiting for an opportunity to place a bomb under his car. Shortly after the attack, Mervyn refused to let the police photograph his dismemberedlegs as documentation. He feared that the images would end up in the hands of the IRA, who he wouldn’t allow to mock his misfortune. No one has ever been permitted to photograph the missing legs until now. Mervyn still fights for his survival with the same phrase in his mind that he overheard a wounded soldier repeat at the hospital: “Don’t let ’em break your spirit.” Photo: Nicoline Kjems-Krognos.
Nicoline Kjems-Krognos has made the portrait during a third term project period. She is currently doing her internship at Berlingske.
During the Danish Voluntary Home Guard’s nearly 75-year history, readiness has never been higher than during the Cold War years. This is recalled by the oldest member of the Air Home Guard, Ejgil Pedersen, 96 years old. “It was a cold time. We were like drawn bows, we didn’t know what was happening.” He himself joined the Air Home Guard in 1956 – the year of Hungary’s uprising against Soviet occupation forces. Ejgil was part of the air reporting corps, a special unit under the Air Home Guard, responsible for reporting attacking or hostile aircraft in Danish airspace. Practically, the system operated through around 400 air reporting stations located in water towers, silos, factories, or specially made steel towers across the country. From there, the volunteers had to determine the aircraft’s position and altitude and report back to air reporting centers, located in eight cities, including Copenhagen, where the center Ejgil reported to was located in a top-secret room under the old Carlsberg brewery in Copenhagen. “We cursed the Russians to the end of the earth. We were all affected,” he recalls. That’s why it makes him very sad that the Russians have once again caused unrest in Europe. “… but I have my uniform ready at home, just in case something happens,” he concludes with a laugh. In 2017, Ejgil Pedersen received a letter from the danish queen thanking him for 60 years of faithful service in the guard. Photo: Anders Holst
Anders Holst graduated in January 2024 and the portrait is part of his final BA-project focussing on the Danish Home Guard.
“Can we come in?”. Three small knocks sound before a red nose pokes its head in. On the bedin the living room, 12-year-old Villads sits with tubes in his nose, playing games on his iPad. He nods and smiles. Together with his parents, he is waiting for his chemo. Villads has a brain tumor that won’t go away. He is allowed to stay at home, but is undergoing treatment until spring next year, alternating chemo once a week for three weeks and then chemo-free for four weeks. The hospital clowns “Baglæns” and “Flaka” get out colored markers and start drawing on the window. “What do you think it is?” they ask Villads about their abstract drawings. “A peach? An angry man with a hat?”. Backwards pauses for a moment. “Or maybe two balls that have grown together?”. The last one makes Villads laugh. Hospital clowns are part of the treatment in Danish hospitals when they create joy and care for sick children through play and stories, according to a report. Photo: Benjamin Krog.
Benjamin Krog is currently on his 7th term working on his BA-project and will graduate in January 2025. The picture is made during his internship at Politiken.
Nine-year-old Vogue Boyd from Cumbria in the north of England is competing in beauty pageants. This weekend Vogue is going to the International Junior Miss UK pageant, so before taking off she and her mom goes to a local beautician to get Vogue ready for the competition. Vogue is nine years old, from England, and is a beauty pageant contestant. This year she competed to win the crown and become International Junior Miss Pre-Teen UK. Before the competition, she practiced her walk and conversation skills, had a spray tan, false eyelashes and manicure, and bought stacks of outfits. Vogue didn’t win, but her parents accepted an offer to buy her a title, crown, sash and the entry to the international competition in January 2025. Photo: Emilie Toldam Futtrup.
Emilie Toildam Futtrup is currently working on her final BA-project and will graduate in January 2025. The story is made during her internship at Jyllands-Posten.
“The pain is the worst part of my illness, but after that comes the medication.” – Mette J., 44 years old. When Mette was told ten years ago, after nine surgeries, that doctors couldn’t do more, her only option was to say yes to morphine. “The pain wasn’t something I imagined.” In Denmark, around ten percent of all women of childbearing age live with endometriosis – a women’s disease where tissue resembling that in the uterus sits and bleeds elsewhere in the pelvic area and abdominal cavity. In this project five women open up about what the disease has done to them from its hiding place. Photo: Nicoline Kjems-Krognos.
Nicoline Kjems-Krognos has made the series as an indepedant assignment during while studying at third and fourth term. She is currently doing her internship at Berlingske.
United Kingdom, April 3, 2024: The United Kingdom is a country in a economic, political, and moral crisis. About two-thirds of UK citizens believe the country is in decline, and it’s not hard to see why. Real wages are lower than they were 15 years ago. One-third of children in the UK grow up in poverty, and many millions have to skip meals every single week. Photo: Maria Høy Hansen.
Maria Høy Hansen has made the picture during her internship at Information. She is currently on seventh term doing her final BA-project and will graduate in January 2025.
Yasmine, 10 years old, has been working in collecting cotton since she was 6 years old to help her family because her father is unable to work due to some health problems in his feet – Fayoum, Egypt 2022 Project description: The village of Harid is located in the Fayoum Governorate, which is famous for child labor, like the rest of the Fayoum villages, especially in agricultural crops such as cotton and wormwood. The area is famous for these crops that are grown in large areas, and these crops require a large number of labor, work in these crops is limited to children only because of the low wages that they receive, as if an adult works, he will receive 3 times the wages of one child. Children are also exploited and forced to work for long hours, as their work starts from sunrise until twelve noon, and children are forced to bear these conditions It is difficult because of their need and the need of their families for this work because the difficult living conditions, where some of them contribute to the expenses of the house and some other children work to save some money to buy new clothes and tools for school. The project sheds light on the dreams of children that fade away in agricultural fields, and according to a 2021 UNICEF statistic, 112 million children around the world work in the agricultural sector. Photo: Sahl Abdelrahman.
Sahl Abdelrahman started the project as his final project graduating the DMJX educational programme in Cairo Egypt in 2021 and 2022. He is now selected for our Photo 1 and 2 programmes as a scholarship student supported by ECCA Family Foundation. The series is also part of his winning portfolio.
CPOY is the world’s oldest competition for student photographers. It was founded i 1945 and is administered by The Missouri School of Journalism. The 2024 competition is the 79th of it’s kind.
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