We’re happy to announce that 17 students from 15 different countries have been selected to study at our international programmes in the fall 2023. This fall five students will receive full scholarships from The ECCA Family Foundation and one student will receive a grant from Erasmus+ to be able to »
MAGAZINE PROJECT by ten Danish students of photojournalism made at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in the spring 20223. The magazine “langs grænsen” (along the border) consists of seven stories made alongside the Danish German border. The ten students behind the magazine are:Sigrid EllesøeIsabella Køhler AndersenNicoline Kjems-KrognosThea TønnesvangCecilie »
Aku Ratsula and Conor Courtney has been awarded platinium for their video documentary “The Last Line” in The New Talent Awards at Graphis Competitions. The Graphis New Talent Annual features work from students from across the world. Platinum Awards are the highest honor in the New Talent competition, and students’ »
Friday the 12th of May, Mohamed Mahdy received his two prizes at the award ceremony of the World Press Photo 2023 at De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, where this year’s exhibition opened on the same day. Mohamed Mahdy won in the Open Category at World Press Photo 2023 with his interactive »
Two days in a row in April 2023, Søren Pagter was interviewed for “Kulturen på P1” in DR – the national Danish Radio. The interview about AI-generated images can be heard here. The interview about World Press Photo 2023 winner can be heard here. »
Mikkel Hørlyck is exhibiting 14 pictures from his BA-project No Man’s Land at the gallery Cascina Roma Fotografia in Milan. »
On the 29th of March, Mohamed Mahdy was announced as the winner of World Press Photo 2023 in the Africa region. Mohamed Mahdy won in the Open Category with his interactive project “Here, The Doors Don’t Know Me”. Today, it was announced that he is also the Global winner. Since »
Wednesday the 5th of April, Søren Pagter was a guest in the live talk-show “Degn’s Saloon” that was held for the first time in the town of Randers. The head of the photojournalism programmes was interviewed about his view on documentary photography and his work teaching at DMJX. »
Mohamed Mahdy, a former student from DMJX’s international photo programme, wins one of the regional awards at the World Press Photo for his photo project about Egyptians being displaced from housing in urban development areas. By Christopher Bering Baden Since 2015, in collaboration with local residents, Mohamed Mahdy has documented »
Sahl Abdelrahman has won first prize in the story category at the Egypt Press Photo 2022 with his story about children working in the agricultural sector in Fayoum Governorate, Egypt. Sahl started the story as his final project during the DEDI/DMJX educational programme that ran in November/December 2021 and in »
Since Salih Basheer has published his book “22 Days in Between”, the project has been the subject to much attention around the World. Here’s a short update. Exhibition at Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar Book launch at Gallery Image, Friday the 3rd of March Reviews »
Simon Gerlinger‘s photographic essay “About Love” has been published in three different German magazines and soon Simon will launch a book with the project that he started as his final Diploma Project at DMJX in the fall 2021. In his project statement, Simon writes: “In intimate portraits of couples, I »
Friday the 10th of March, the international Photo 1 and the Danish second term students finished their first course of the spring term with a mutual exhibition where the 20 students showed their short documentary assignments. »
Friday the 3rd of March the award ceremony for the Danish POY 2022 was held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen. Eight DMJX students were nominated beforehand, and four projects won first prizes and two received second prizes. On top of that, three students had pictures selected for the touring »
The Copenhagen Photo Festival has announced the solo artists and Futures 2023 talents for this year’s festival. DMJX alumni Mikkel Hørlyck has been selected for The FUTURES 2023 Talents with his story “Jørgen, a Mystery”. As part of the European platform FUTURES Photography, Copenhagen Photo Festival each year get to »
Our Danish fourth term students have had a short workshop in studio flash with guest lecturer and photographer Rune Pedersen. Among other exercises, the students worked a full day making portraits of young actors playing various roles. »
This week, DMJX held open school, where interested applicants could learn about all our educations. The photojournalism education was represented both at our campus in Copenhagen and of course at our campus in Aarhus.Read more about the application process here. »
Back to Raw, the third edition of Cairo Photo Week organized by Photopia is running right now downtown Cairo, Egypt. DMJX students and their projects are part of the huge festival. During Cairo Photo Week, three DMJX alumni Heba Khamis, Mohamed Mahdy and Fares Zaitoon were part of a panel »
Back in 2015, Betina Garcia was doing her exchange study at Western Kentucky University and during her study, she began the story Rancheros that follows the Latin American Espinoza family. Betina Garcia continued to work on the story about the family and now her long term project has won the »
The welcome lecture for the spring 2023 photojournalism students was held by Mads Joakim Rimer Rasmussen, Tuesday the 31st of January in the Yellow Auditorium. »
