The judging of the multimedia categories at the 80th College Photographer of the Year has ended and three DMJX stories have been awarded.
GOLD
Documentary Short
Cara Penquite & Ellen Wiklund
As a dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet, Tomoka Kawazoe spends most of her time perfecting her craft. However, she learns the importance of taking time for her life outside the studio following an injury that forced her to take a step back. Now she finds herself on a journey towards balance in her life.
Screen shot from the documentary that was made during the two photographers’ Photo 1 study in the spring 2025. They’re both currently continuing their study at Photo 2 at DMJX.
FINALIST
Documentary Short
Katja Hasenöhrl and Rhiannon Johnston
Lystbækgaard, a sheep farm in West Jutland, Denmark, is home to Berit and her 800 sheep. Here, women have a chance to come and experience a different kind of life close to nature.
Screen shot from the documentary that was made in the fall 2024 during the two photographers’ Photo 1 study at DMJX. The production also also a finalist in the Daily Life category at POYi – Picture of the Year international.
FINALIST
Online Storytelling
Emilie Toldam Futtrup
Elves do exist. Maybe not in your world. Or mine. But they follow 25-year-old Frederikke Bertin in her life. For better or worse. Shadow, Lora, Rotello, Pingo and Elfendahl. They each have their own name, their own personality, their own voice, but they all live in the same place. Inside Frederikke’s head.
Frederikke Bertin lives in a residential home in Aarhus, Denmark and is diagnosed with schizophrenia. She is herself, connected to the voices she hears and the things she sees, which are not real, but are part of her reality. A reality she doesn’t feel that the people and doctors around her are trying to understand.
Image from the online story by Emilie Toldam Futtrup made as her final BA-project in the fall 2024. A the graduation ceremony, January 2025, Emilie received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA-project with this production.