Last week, Søren Pagter conducted the workshop Photojournalist Method as the second in a series of four DMJX workshops in Cairo made in co-operation with our partner Photopia Cairo and supported by the Embassy of Denmark in Cairo.
Standing from left: Ali Moustafa, George Mercuris, Osama Mostafa, Søren Pagter, Hassan Ghonim, Yousef Nasar, Ahmed Mahfouz, and Abdelaziz Ibrahim.
Sitting from left: Mona Hassan, Doaa Nasr, Mariam Shabana, Farah El Moatassem, and Judi Mohamed.
The aim of the programmne is to educate 12 selected Egyptian photographers in the language of photojournalism. The programme will consist of a series of four workshops and conclude with an exhibition and a publication showing the participants’ final projects.
The participants will receive teaching and work on individual assignments during the workshops. Each participant will do a major project in the period in between the third and fourth workshop. The participants will receive individual coaching while they work on the final major project.
After the fourth and final workshop, all stories will be published in a mutual magazine. The magazine will be posted online on DMJX Photojournalism’s webpage, and images from the stories and the spreads of the magazine will be exhibited in Cairo.
In May, Mads Greve conducted the first workshop focussing on Portraiture. In August, Gitte Luk will host the third workshop in written journalism. The fourth online workshop will conducted by both Gitte Luk and Søren Pagter and here the students will do the final editing of the stories.
The final exhibition has been postponed and will take place at Photopia, January 14, 2027.
