DMJX projects exhibited at Young Danish Photography

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Five projects with connection to DMJX are part of the current Young Danish Photography exhibition, that opened at Fotografisk Center, Friday November 21, 2025.

Young Danish Photography is a group exhibition at Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen showing eight different projects within the theme of climate and biodiversity. Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJX

Fotografisk Center has since 1998 presented the annual Young Danish Photography exhibition. Every year, the exhibition venue co-operates with external curators to select the exhibiting photographers and to create the show.

This year’s edition of Young Danish Photography has been curated by Sigrid Nygaard and Emil Ryge from Danish Documentarism and the exhibition’s focus is climate and biodiversity. The exhibition consists of eight projects, where five of them are connected to DMJX.

The five project are:

Leyndarmál by Tilde Døssing

Leyndarmál translates from Icelandic as the language of secrets.
Tilde’s images of ice reflects how we historically and culturally has feared its ability to destroy life, but now we fear the consequences of the ice melting.
Tilde Døssing’s exhibited images are excerpts of a project that she made just before her graduation project while on leave during her seventh term in 2023 at DMJX.
Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJX

1℃ by Sofie Mathiassen & Sille Veilmark

Denmark’s natural heritage is experiencing changes. Some of these changes are directly linked to the rising temperatures, while others are indirect consequences of climate change. The truth is that Denmark has seen an average temperature rise of 1℃ over the last 115 years.
The project documents how climate change is already affecting Denmark’s nature and people.
Sofie Mathiassen & Sille Veilmark made 1℃ as their final BA-project in 2019, and they received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for Best Photojournalistic Bachelor Project the same year.
The project has been part of both the Lumix Festival for Young Visual Journalism in 2020 and The Climate Festival in 2022.
Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJX

Climate Lexicon by Peter Nygaard and Anders Rye Skjoldjensen

Each of the objects in the Climate Lexicon is closely linked to the abstract concept we call climate. The objects have been carefully curated and selected in collaboration with researchers and journalists and subsequently scanned by Peter Nygaard and Anders Rye Skjoldjensen to render global challenges present and tangible.
The first scans were made by Peter in 2018 during his internship at the newspaper Information and he won a second prize in the Interpretive Project Category at COPY in 2019 with the first series of scans.
Peter and Anders have both graduated their BA in photojournalism from DMJX.
The Climate Lexicon project is supported by Novo Nordisk Foundation.
Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJX

Zona Cero by Signe Lægsgaard

At the end of October 2024, the Valencia region of Spain was hit by severe flooding, where over 200 people perished and thousands were evacuated.
Signe Lægsgaard exhibits four images that documents the impact of the disaster one month after the water swept through the streets.
Signe made the story during her internship at Politiken and she won International News Picture of the Year at the 2024 Danish Picture of the Year with one of the images from the story. She is currently working on her final BA-project.
Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJX

Generation, Climate by Christian Falck Wolff

On a winter morning in 2023 hundreds of climate activists were standing on the edge of an lignite mine in the German village of Lützerath. They were ready to use their bodies as shields to prevent the expansion of the mine.
This was Christian Falck Wolff’s first encounter with the young generation’s climate struggle and since then he has followed in the footsteps of a generation of young people who have mobilised in the name of climate.
Christian won Danish Picture of the Year and International News Picture at the Danish POY 2023 with his images from Lützerath that he made during his holiday while on internship at the newspaper Politiken.
in 2024, Christian received the ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award sponsored by the ECCA Family Foundation to continue his stories about Generation Climate.
The project has been exhibited at Voices – the European Festival of Journalism and Media Literacy at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia.
Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJX