Announcing international students and ECCA scholarship recipients for spring 2026

We have selected the ten students, who will join DMJX in the spring 2026 and among them are Sadiq Al-Harasi and Suman Nepali, who have been selected by the ECCA Family Foundation to receive the foundation’s full scholarship.

Sadiq Al-Harasi from Yemen. Photo: Abeer Aref
Suman Nepali from Nepal

32 photographers applied for our Photo 1 programme and 15 of them applied for the ECCA scholarship. We nominated 6 of the photographers for the ECCA Family Foundation to choose between.

A total of ten international photographers will start their study at DMJX in the spring 2026.

The Photo 1 class of spring 2026 will be:
Sadiq Al-Harasi, Yemen
Lilou Vanderheyden, Belgium
Louise Joenen, Belgium
Camilla Matteoni, Italy
Lilly Vergnes, The Netherlands
Sam Cox, USA
AgustĂ­n N. Calcagno, Chile
Claire Nguyen, USA
Suman Nepali, Nepal
Cora Trinkaus, Germany