Sergei Stroitelev‘s personal book-project I Wish it Was Just a Nightmare made at DMJX in the fall 2022 has been published by Experimental. The photobook I Wish it Was Just a Nightmare delves into the harrowing aftermath of the war in Ukraine, ignited by Russia’s aggression in 2022. Fleeing censorship, »
Søren Pagter was interviewed for Kulturen at the national Danish radio channel P1, today. The focus for the interview was the difficulties in photographing climate stories and the fact that three out of the five single pictures nominated for the Danish Press Photo of the Year cover climate issues. You »
Lamees Saleh Sharf El Din is among the 15 selectees for Copenhagen Photo Festival 2024. Lamees is selected on behalf of her project “Indefinitely” that she made during our Egyptian Language of Photojournalism programme that was held in co-operation with DEDI – The Danish Egyptian Dialogue Initiative. Lamees Saleh Sharf »
Amelie Sachs‘ book project Vergissmeinnicht is among the five winners of The Dummy Award 2023. The personal project started and the first dummy was made during Amelie’s study at DMJX in the spring 2021. Amelie Sachs studied at Photo 2 in the spring 2021 and here she started the project »
Firday, February 2 all photojournalism students gathered for a full day of lectures and social events. »
The German podcast GATE7 have published a 50 minutes conversation in English with Søren Pagter, where he talks about his book The Essential Image and his philosophy of documentary photography. »
Sefa Eyol has won bronze in the category Editorial/Conflict at Tokyo International Foto Awards The winning image is part of Sefa’s project “The Costs of Freedom” – a reportage project about the struggle of the Ukrainian people during the Russian attack at their nation. The project is made between April »
At the graduation ceremony on January 25, Christian Falck Wolff received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for the best photojournalistic BA-project for his project “Djævlens værk”. »
During the weekend January 20 and 21, Mads Greve have been in Stockholm to judge “Årets Bild” – the Swedish POY. »
Shrouk Ghonim has won a second prize in the category “Daliy Life Outside Egypt” at the Egypt Press Photo. »
The nominees for the Danish Picture of the Year are out. Among the total of 28 nominees are seven DMJX students. Congratulations to Emilie Toldam Futtrup, Sigrid Ellesøe Nielsen, Thea Tønnesvang, Rosaline Ben-baruch Lange, Axel Emil Hammerbo, Benjamin Voldum Krog and Christian Falck Wolff. 118 photographers have submitted 2173 pictures »
On one of the last days of 2023, Friday December 29, Nichlas Pollier was interviewed for “Go’ Aften Live” at the Danish broadcast channel TV2. The interview can be seen 10 minutes into the programme at this link, if you subscribe to TV2. »
Wednesday, December 20, 2023, more than 30 DMJX students and teachers gathered for the final screening day to end the 2023 fall term. »
Kishor Sharma‘s project “Living in the Mist” is published both online and on print in the German Geo Magazine. Kishor Sharma started the project back in 2011, when he was part of the a DMJX educational programme for Nepalese photographers that ran in Kathmandu. In 2014, he studied at DMJX »
The Magnum Foundation has announced the nine participants in the 2023-2024 Photography Expanded Fellowship focused on the topic of heat and climate crisis. Among the nine are DMJX alumni Farhana Satu and Hashem Shakeri. Farhana Satu from Bangladesh has been selected based on her project Water/Life. Farhana studied at and graduated »
Manuel Seoane is right now exhibiting his Diploma Project Panoramics of Disaster in the main center of La Paz, Bolivia. »
With his project The Costs of Freedom, Sefa Eyol is one the three winners in the student category of The Royal Photographic Society Documentary Photography Awards ( DPA 2023 ) and he is one the finalists of the student contest Homework at Vilnius Photo Festival 2023. Sefa Eyol’s winning project will »
Each year since 1998, the Danish exhibition place Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen hosts the exhibition Young Danish Photography that highlights new talents and trends within Danish photography. The 2023 exhibition includes DMJX alumni Louise Herrche Serup, Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker and Salih Basheer. Louise Herrche Serup and Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker are »
Friday, November 10, 2023, the Photo 1 students launched their magazine at a reception at DMJX. The ten students have worked with individual stories within the topic “Otherness”. Pictures from the editing and layout process: Pictures from the preparations of the magazine reception: Pictures from the magazine reception: The magazine »
Mohamed Mahdy exhibits his project “Here, The Doors Don’t Know Me” at Vantage Point Sharjah in United Arab Emirates. Since 2015, in collaboration with local residents, Mohamed Mahdy has documented how inhabitants are suffering from the rapid urban development in the Al Max neighbourhood, Alexandria, Egypt. One of the chapters »
