VIDEO DOCUMENTARY by Deepti Asthana and Michelle Hanks – made during the Photo I programme in the spring 2019. Mahmoud Bayragdar, 29, lived a good and comfortable life back in Damascus, Syria. But in 2011 he had to flee because of the Syrian civil war. Three years later, Mahmoud found »
Around 40 DMJX students gathered today for our traditional final screening day, where the students from different groups showed their projects to one another. »
STILL PICTURE STORY by Shirin Abedi – made in the spring 2019 as her final Photo Story during Photo I at DMJX. In a long red dress with a small crown in her hair, Mojdeh dances in front of a red curtain in the cheer of a female audience in »
Last week Laura Bisgaard Krogh and Mads Greve were in Matera in Southern Italy. They were invited by Matera European Photography and Canon for a residency where Laura worked on a photographic series about young Italian women and Mads gave a talk about his photographic work. Matera is the European »
Thursday the 6th of June, Copenhagen Photo Festival will begin and more than 20 DMJX students and their projects will be a part of the festival. SOLO EXHIBITIONS: Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann’s Coastland project will be exhibited at Broens Gadekøkken and Kulturtårnet at Knippelsbro. The two photographers will give »
Benjamin Nørskov opened his exhibition “EPA Sweden” at Värmland’s Museum in Karlstad Saturday the 1st of June. The exhibition is a part of the opening of the newly renovated museum and more than 3,000 people visited the exhibition and museum on the first day of the opening weekend. »
Mads Greve, Søren Pagter and some DMJX students participated in the Norwegian Dok Festival in Frederikstad this weekend. »
Tobias Kobborg‘s story “No One Could Catch Me” is published over five pages in the May edition of the Danish magazine Ud og Se. Tobias Kobborg’s made the story about the Kenyan runner, Cornelius Kemboi, during his third term documentary workshop in the fall 2018. The story is published in »
The Danish Pressphotographers Association arranged a panel discussion about this year’s Danish Picture of the Year at PixlArt Gallery in Østervrå this Monday afternoon. Fourth term student Katinka Klinge was a part of the panel. Due to the huge debate, which this year’s selection of especially the Picture of the »
Tobias Nicolai has won the Kravling award for his BA-project Wolf Land. Saturday the 11th of May, ‘Wolf Land’ was awarded the first prize in the tv- and photo category at this year’s Kravling Awards. It was an unanimous decision from the jury consisting of Thomas Borberg, Jonas Fogh, Angelina Owino, Sisse Strøyer and Harley Hersom. »
Our international Photo I students, Shirin Abedi and Deepti Asthana, are right now exhibiting in respectively Germany and Switzerland. »
The organisation Freelancegruppen has created a series of workshops with the title “Create your own large photo project”. Monday the 13th of May, Søren Pagter kickstarted the workshops for the 14 participants. “Create your own large photo project” is a series of lectures with photographers Mads Nissen, Sara Galbiati and »
Julie Kristensen and Andreas Merrald’s short doc film, Distant Love, has been selected for the international Odense Film Festival. Distant Love is nominated in the categories Danish Competiton, Documentary Competition og Youth Competition at the festival. Julie and Andreas made the film during their video documentary workshop with Henrik Kastenskov »
Peter Nygaard received Information Fotopris 2019 this Friday. The prize has been established to honor photojournalism students, who during their internship create high quality work. The second prize went to Nanna Navntoft, Politiken and the third prize went to Mads Claus Rasmussen, Ritzau Scanpix. Peter Nygaard has been interning at »
The second masterclass workshop for Nordic and Russian photographers is happening in Reykjavik, Iceland. During three days the participants are working in groups discussing and editing their photo stories, which they have worked on in Kaliningrad, Russia, and Reykjavik. The photographic master class Next To You is organised by Nordic »
The past two days, our former student Arko Datto has been back to teach at DMJX. Arko Datto is back in Aarhus because he’s currently exhibiting his project Pik-Nik at Gallery Image. While in Aarhus, Arko Datto also visited DMJX, where he studied for one year back in 2013. This »
The Danish second term students and the international Photo I students launched their magazines today. Two workshops ended today with a huge reception and an exhibition of the two magazines Morsø – made by our second term students and Nest – made by our international Photo I students. Both magazines »
The Status:19 exhibition opened at Fotodage Viborg Friday the 3rd of May. Eight DMJX students are among the 47 photographers selected for the exhibition. The DMJX students selected for the exhibition are:Sille VeilmarkNanna NavntoftSofie MathiassenIda Marie Odgaard and Ivan BollTobias NicolaiMads Claus RasmussenMorten Lau-Nielsen We’re sharing the selected images on »
MAGAZINE PROJECT by 12 second term Danish photojournalism students made during a workshop in April 2019. The 12 students went to the island Morsø in Denmark, where they made individual stories about the people and the island. The 12 students are: Marie Ravn, Søren Vendelbo Valdemar Stroe Ren, Emil Nicolai »
