Søren Pagter in live talkshow

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 wins prize at World Press Photo

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 Egypt Press Photo 2022

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 »

Salih Basheer’s “22 Days in Between” around the World

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 »

Four first prizes to DMJX at the Danish POY 2022

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 »

Workshop in studio flash

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. »

Open school at DMJX

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. »

DMJX students at Cairo Photo Festival

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 »

Betina Garcia’s has won Community Awareness Award at the 80th POYi

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 »

International students selected for spring 2023

15 international students will start next week at DMJX Photojournalism. Seven of these students have received scholarships to be able to study in Denmark. The ten students at Photo 1 will be:Alexandra Iulia Corcode (Romania)Laura Collard (Belgium)Mohammad Jaafer (Sudan)Leon Joshua Dreischulte (Germany)Toukir Ahmed Tanvee (Bangladesh)Tomáš Pacovský (Czech Republic)Owen Ziliak (USA)Zohreh »

25 years at DMJX

With the beginning of 2023, Søren Pagter could celebrate his 25 years anniversary at DMJX. This was marked at a small informal reception in the school’s canteen on Friday the 6th of January. Søren Pagter began as a teacher of photojournalism at the Danish School of Journalism (as it was »