Thursday afternoon more than 140 students at DMJX participated in a small conference on safety when working in war zones and disaster areas. The school’s auditorium was full of interested students for the safety conference Thursday afternoon. Danish and international photojournalists from all semesters participated. Picture by Cæciliie Vibe Pedersen. »
A lot of our students are extremely busy this week finishing each of their projects. So there’s a lot of activity at the school. The second term students are wokring on their magazine with stories from the border area between Denmark and Germany. Second term students working in the computer »
The World Press Photo exhibition opened yesterday at Politiken with speeches by World Press winner, Mads Nissen and director of Word Press Photo, Lars Boering. In these months the staff from World Press Photo travels around the world to present and discuss their ideas for both the competition and for »
Barbara Leolini‘s story “Echoes” about believing in the supernatural and about ghost hunters in Italy has been made into a small multimedia production. Picture from the project “Echoes” made by Barbara Leolini. This new version of Barbara’s final diploma project can now be seen on the website Sideluck Editorial together with »
Photojournalist Thomas Nielsen, who’s a former student, a guest lecturer at DMJX and a member of our group of examinators has been in Hangzhou, China to do a workshop for Chinese photographers. As a part of his visit Thomas was interviewed for the Hangzhou newspaper, The City Express – a »
Emanuele Camerini’s story “The Twelfth Night” has been selected to be exhibited at Photo Kathmandu from the 3rd till the 9th of November. Picture from Emanuele’s story about the legend of the seal woman. Emanule made his story as his final diploma project at DMJX in the fall 2014. Photo »
Aarhus Independent Pixels is a new Nordic short film- and photography festival. The festival is located in the heart of Aarhus, Denmark and its mission is to promote independent artists up to 30 years old from the Nordic countries. Mads Greve has been asked to be one of the mentors at »
Ella Kiviniemi and Romina Vinci’s video documentary “Evidence” is continuing it’s succes. Screen-shot from the video documentary “Evidence” by Ella Kiviniemi and Romina Vinci. “Evidence” is one out of only four stories to be selected for the first edition of Phototales – multimedia projects at the XIV edition of the »
Romina Vinci and Giulia Mangione, two of our former international students, have had their DMJX projects published. Here’s an short update from Italy: Giulia Mangione’s picture from “Danesland” on the front cover of “Il Reportage”. Two DMJX projects will be published in no. 24 of the Italian magazine “Il Reportage”: Giulia Mangione’s project »
Yesterday, the censored exhibition Status:15 opened at Museumsbygningen in Copenhagen. The exhibition can be seen untill the 30th of October. The opening of Status:15, yesterday. Both this picture and the picture on the wall is by Asger Ladefoged. Status:15 shows 100 pictures, which depict the current level of professional Danish »
Brittany Greeson is interviewed for the weekly blog, “The Image, Deconstructed”. Kenth Ebbesen. Picture by Brittany Greeson. In the interview, Brittany talks about her project “For Kenth”, which she made in the fall 2014 during Photo1 as her final photo story. She also tells about the difference between her school in Western »
This week the DMJX instagram is taken over by photojournalist student Tobias Nicolai, who is in Vietnam shooting a story about the consequenses of the American use of Agent Orange during the war which ended 40 years ago. Check it out here. And find Tobias’ personal instagram here. »
This Friday the photo exhibition “Det Levende Aarhus” opened in Musikhuset, Aarhus. Picture by Nanna Navntoft selected for the exhibition “Det Levende Aarhus”. The exhibition focusses on man, nature and animal life in the city and it’s the first step to a much bigger outdoor event with 100 pictures, which will »
During the past weeks a lot of different news images from the current refugee crisis have been published and shared both in Denmark and abroad. Especially three images have been debated here in Denmark: – The picture of the three-year-old Turkish boy, Aylan, who died during his and his family’s »
The Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan has published an interview with Sisse Stroyer about her project “Sexting”. Picture from the Sexting project, which is a collection of modern “love letters” sent by mobile phones from one person to another. Sisse began the project back in 2010 as her Visual Project during her »
Romina Vinci and Ella Kiviniemi‘s video documentary “Evidence” is now available with German subtitles since it has been published on Zeit Online. Screen-shot from the video documentary “Evidence” by Romina Vinci and Ella Kiviniemi. Romina and Ella made the story about the refugee Kidane Berhe during their web documentary workshop »
The class which just begun their internships in August created a photo blog called Nagisaki, where they show their work made on the newspapers where they intern – two of them in Cambodia. Check it out here. »
Janus Engel, who has just finished his internship at Politiken, has been caught in a media debate about his project: “Life by the Edge of the Water“. It all began before summer, when Janus went to the island Langeland to do a one-month reportage as his final story while interning »
For the first time the Danish organization DJ:fotograferne has arranged a censored exhibition – Status:15 – which will show the current status of professional Danish photography – divided into five different categories: photojournalism, art, portraiture, commercial and communication. 320 photographers submitted in all 3400 pictures for the censored exhibition and »
In the spring, during Photo1, Romina Vinci and Ella Kiviniemi made the video documentary “Evidence” about Kidane Berhe, who had escaped from Eritrea and ended up in an asylum center in Ranum in the north of Denmark. Kidane Berhe sitting by the coast in Denmark. Picture by Romina Vinci and Ella »
