Mads Greve at Festival della Fotografica Etica

Faculty teacher Mads Greve will visit Festival della Fotografica Etica in Italy this Saturday to do portfolio reviews. Friday Mads’ agency Prospekt turns ten and at Teatro alle Vigne a screening of Prospekt works takes place among them Mads’ Blind Date. The festival has another DMJX connection as former student Lærke Posselt’s »

Two receptions on one day

Today, we’re having two receptions at DMJX. At 12.30 our Danish second terms students will launch their magazine with stories from the Danish island Lolland. The group of eigth students went together to the island called Lolland in the south of Denmark. Here they worked for one week making a »

Russian Master Class book launch

On Wednesday the 1st of October the book “Next Door” was launched at a reception in St. Peterburg, Russia. Mads Nissen speaking about the project at the reception in St. Petersburg. Picture by Anders Lange. A spread from the book “Next Door”. Picture by Anders Lange. “Next Door” is the »

Photocollective Skagerak

When the current 6th semester students were sent to internship they formed a photocollective called Skagerak to share their work during the internship. By now it has turned into a site with stories and a blog with photos from daily assigmnents. Check it out, it’s worth spending some time there. »

DMJX, MO, USA

“This week, Kayla, Demetrius, Matt and I spent the week at the Missouri Photo Workshop in Platte City, Missouri. The three of them were participating in the workshop, I was working on my personal project. At the end of the week, to celebrate completed projects and a week of hard »

Former Student Lærke Posselt Recieves Royal Award

This weekend former student Lærke Posselt recieved Stjernedrysprisen awarded by the Crownprince and Crownprincess of Denmark. The award show was broadcasted live at DR1. You can see the show here. Lærke is on at around 16:00 (in Danish). »

Laetitia Vancon in l’Oeil de la Photographie

Laetitia Vancon‘s story “my Home, My Prison” is published in the French photography magazine l’Oeil de la Photographie. From the story My Home, My Prison by Laetitia Vancon. Laetitia did the story as her final diploma project in the spring 2014. »

Simon Skipper presented on Skip a Heartbeat

Simon Skipper is interviewed and presented for the fashion blog Skip a Heartbeat. The blog has started a new category on their website called career talk, where they interview different artists. Simon Skipper is the first to be presented in this category on the webiste. Simon Skipper is currently doing »

Lærke Posselt receives royal acknowledgement

This morning it was announced that Lærke Posselt is one out of two young Danish artists to receive HM crown prince Frederik and princess Mary’s talent prize called “Stjernedrysprisen” (the Stardust Prize). The prize is handed out each year to acknowledge young emerging talents among Danish artists. From the story »

Camille Lepage book funds new award

Photojournalist Camille Lepage was tragically killed on the 13th of May this year while reporting from the Central African Republic in May this year. At this year’s Visa pour l’Image her agencies, Polaris and Hans Lucas released a book with some of the pictures, Camille made while covering the conflict »

Two "old" DMJX projects published again

Lærke Posselt is going to exhibit her project Beautiful Child at the Festival della Fotografia Etica in Lodi, Italy. Lærke did the story at her 7th semester project in 2011. Lærke Posselt graduated in 2013. From the project Beautiful Child by Lærke Posselt. Mette Frandsens project Sin City is published »

Polaroid group picture

A few weeks ago, Emanuele Camerini was testing his newly bought used Polaroid camera and Impossible Project film before starting his Visual Project. He made this group picture at an Indian restaurant, where the Danish 8th term students and the photo2 students had a welcome dinner together with Kent Klich »

DMJX students at Visa pour l’Image

The annual Visa pour L’image ended today and two international DMJX-students and their projects were a part of the festival. From the story “My Home, My Prison”. Picture by Laetitia Vancon. Laetitia Vancon was selected as a “Coup de Coeur” at Visa pour l’image by Association Nationale des Iconographes. Laetitia »

Felix von der Osten shortlisted for Nordic Book Dummy Award

International student Felix Von der Osten is shortlisted in the Nordic Book Dummy Awards with his project “Every Three Seconds” about the pig industry in Denmark. Felix did the story as his final photo story when he graduated our photo1 programme this spring. Front cover of the book Every Three »

Kishor Sharma won with "Living in the Mist"

Kishor Sharma has been awarded in the 14th General Photography Festival “Photo City Sagamihara”. Kishor has won the Grand Prix Asian prize, which includes 200,000 Yen, a trophy and certificates the winning professional photographer from Asia to exhibit his/her work of documentary photos. Kishor will receive the prize in Japan »

Mads Greve at Visa pour l’Image

This week, staff teacher Mads Greve is participating in the annual photo festival Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan, France. Mads Greve is in Perpignan to conduct a workshop for a group of Danish photographers and to establish future contacts for DMJX. Mads Greve’s “selfie” from Perpignan – where he breaks »

Casper Balslev gave welcoming lecture

Yesterday afternoon, photojournalist Casper Balslev gave this semester’s welcoming lecture to all our students. Casper Balslev talking about his Hollywood project in the TV-auditorium, yesterday. Around 50 students from all photo semesters gathered yesterday in the TV-auditorium to greet each other and to listen to this semester’s opening lecture by »

DMJX participates in the Global Family Project

The photojournalist students at DMJX have been invited to participate in a global project arranged and sponsored by Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School and The Alexia Foundation. More than 40 photojournalistic schools from all over the world participate in the projects, which pourpose it is to make a powerful statement »

Sexting project at the Finnish Museum of Photography

Back in 2010, photojournalism student Sisse Stroyer started a project called Sexting during her 8th semester at DMJX. Tonight, she’s opening an exhibiting of the project at the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki. Picture form the Sexting project. Picture form the Sexting project. Sexting is a project, where Sisse »

Sailendra Kharel has won first prize at Nepal’s POY

During the summer break it was announced, that Sailendra Kharel won first prize in the category “Daily Life Single” at Nepal’s annual photojournalism contest. Relatives mourns after a village fire in Holiya, Banke district in Nepal. Sailendra Kharel’s prize winning picture. You can see the some of the winning images »