In the fall 2015 Betina Garcia was an exchange student at our partner school Western Kentucky University. During her stay in USA Betina made a long term project about Hispanics in Kentucky. Screen shot of the front page of Betina Garcia’s web doc about Hispanics in Kentucky. Click to watch. »
STILL PICTURE STORY by Mikkel Hørlyck – made during a third term reportage workshop at DMJX in the fall 2016. The orphanage in the city of Orhei in Moldova is the residence of some 200 boys and men, who are physically or mentally disabled. Moldova is the poorest country in »
Vice Magazine has published Simon Fals’ Visual Project from 2015. Selfportrait by Simon Fals from his project Fear of Darkness. Last fall Simon Fals went to live in a Swedish forrest. Simon’s aim was to confront his own fear of darkness. Picture from Simon Fals’ series Fear of Darkness. Simon »
The legendary Eddie Adams workshop was held last week from the 7th till the 10th of October. Five DMJX students were among the 100 young photographers selected for the workshop. DMJX alumni at Eddie Adams Workshop. From left to right: Alaa Elkamhawi, Sarah Hoffman, Kristen Zeis, Betina Garcia, Eve Edelheit »
Our second term students have spent one week in the south of the Island Funen to create stories for their magazine. Second term students discussing the first version of the layout during the production week. Photo by Mathilde Bech. In the past week they’ve edited the pictures stories, written the »
Our photo2 student Emine Akbaba has won first prize in the competition “Alles in schönster Ordnung”, which is held as a part of the European Month of Photography in Berlin. The competition exposes the situation in Europe and the current refugee situation. Emine Akbaba with her prize winning story straight »
Right now both our Danish second and third term students are finalizing their stories and getting ready to show their work at the school this Friday. The Danish second term students discussing the first layout of their mutual magazine. Photo by Mathilde Bech. Our second term students have been on »
In February this year the galleri PixlArt in the north of Denmark opened the exhibition “Transit” focussing on stories about the refugee situation in Europe. Søren Pagter gave the opening speech at the exhibition and was interviewed for the PixlArt magazine no. 03. Now, the interview is available online at »
This week Mads Greve and Mads Nissen has been running the first part of the Nordic-Russian master class Next To Me. From the first week of the Nordic Russian master class Next To Me. Picture by Mads Greve. 16 young, talented photojournalists have been selected to participate in the master »
During the magazine workshop this spring Noa City-Eliyahu did a story about men and women serving in the Danish army together. Spread from the 3F magazine showing Noa City-Eliyahu’s story made during our Photo1 programme. Noa’s pictures and text has now been published twice – in the 3F magazine (page »
Today, our Danish second term students and international Photo 1 students attended a seminar arranged by World Press Photo and Canon at Politiken in Copenhagen. DMJX-students at a seminar arranged by World Press Photo and Canon. Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen. At the seminar the students attended lectures with Tessa »
The daily Poltiken has today published a reader’s comment by Søren Pagter. In the article Søren Pagter comments on an interview with Fred Ritchin, where the American photo critic is quoted to say; ”we no longer make iconic images, which can change the world”. Søren Pagter states that the idea »
The first candidates for the Danish award ”Fotogratula” has been announced and head of department of photojournalism, Søren Pagter, is among the 17 shortlistet candidates. Link: http://djfotograferne.dk/Nyheder/2016/September/DE-FORSTE-FOTOGRATULA-KANDIDATER/ ”Fotogratula” is an award to honor a person or an institution that has worked for the development of photography in Denmark. Among the nominees »
The three former DMJX-students, Sara Galbiati, Tobias Selnæs Markussen and Peter Helles were back at DMJX to talk about their Phenomena project today. They gave a lecture about their book and exhibition project at our welcome to all students event. Tobias Selnæs Markussen, Sara Galbiati and Peter Helles posing during »
Kasper Løftgaard has been interviewed for The Mango Lab about the story behind one of his pictures form his final BA-project. In the interview at “The Mango Lab” Kasper Løftgaard shares his experiences in making this picture and making the project “Cowboys”. Kasper Løftgaard graduated in 2015 with this project »
The Australian based photographer Sam Harris is teaching our Photo2 and final year students this week. Sam Harris said “hello” to our final year students today. The next week the student will work with “happy Accidents in their photography. Photo by Søren Pagter Sam Harris is teaching a workshop called »
This Thursday the Swedish photographer Julia Lindemalm opens her exhibition Zoo World at Abecita Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden. Picture from Julia Lindemalm’s project Zoo World. The picture was a part of the original Diploma Project made at DMJX and it’s a part of Julia’s upcoming exhibition at Abecita Konstmuseum. Former student »
The school is buzzing again, since today was the first day of the autumn term. Kent Klich teaching in our Photo2 and 8th term class. Photo by Søren Pagter. Both the Danish and international can look forward to an interesting autumn, where the different classes will have workshops with for »
The 16 Danish students from second and third term pre-started their autumn term today when they met at the Crossover Web Documentary Festival in Vejle, Denmark. DMJX students at the opening reception at the first Crossover Web Documentray Festival. Photo: Søren Pagter. The students and their teachers Mads Greve and »
Kasper Palsnov is presented in the column New Talent in The British Journal of Photography online. From the series “Salt” by Kasper Palsnov. BJP is showing Kasper’s Visual Project Salt, which he made during his final term this spring. Together with the presentation there’s an interview with Kasper where he »
