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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Laetitia Vancon, former international Frensh student, is among the only five photographers selected for the Blumm Prize. Noja at the hospital – from the story “My Home, My Prison”. Picture by Laetitia Vancon. Laetitia is participating with her story “My Home, My Prison”, which she made as her final diploma »
Mario Wezel, former internattional student from Germany, has received the commended award at the Ian Perry Scholarship. From the story about Emmy, who suffers from Down’s Syndrome. Picture by Mario Wezel. Mario won with his story “One in eight hundred”, which he made as his final diploma project in the »
When DMJX student Magnus Holm won first prize in College Photographer of the Year (CPOY) he recieved an internship at National Geographic. During the internship Magnus did a project about a small Inuit settlement north of the Artic Circle. Read about the internship and the project here. »
The 27th Eddie Adams Workshop will be held in October 2014 and the only 100 students selected for the four-day intense workshop were announced last week. The list of participants is not on the workshop’s website, but as far as I know four out of the 100 students come from »
At the dimission ceremony today, Lasse Mejlvang received the Scanpix Prize for the best photojournalistic BA-project. Lasse Mejlvang was not able to be at the award Ceremony, so he sent a video message instead. Picture by Mads Greve. Lasse Mejlvang received the prize for his project “A place they call »
This weekend the forth Lumix Festival was held in Hannover. A lot of former, present and even comming DMJX students were present at the festival as exhibitors, guests and active in arranging the festival. 38 of the around 50 DMJX-stduents and teachers gathered for a group picture at the Expo »
Third term student Simon Skipper opened his exhibition “Malmøcitater” this Saturday. Picture from the exhibition by Simon Skipper and Mathias Lind. The exhibition is an interpretation of the town Malmø – made through manipulated cityscapes. It can be seen at Gallery T, Jægersgårdsgade 58 in Aarhus. Simon Skipper has made »
Our third term students have recently finished their web documentary workshop conducted by Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Bombay Flying Club. This semester we’ve introduced a new and more interesting media format, which can combine video, sound, text and of course still images. The format is available on all »
Mathias Christensen is currently exhibiting as a part of the 7 X Personal Projects in Øksehallen, Copenhagen. The exhibition opened last Friday and is a part of the Copenhagen Fotofestival. Mathias is exhibiting his Visual Project called “the story about fear of the wolves, isolation and the meeting with God” »
International student Philipp Jeske presents his final photo story. The best day of the semester at DMJX is when all the photo students gather for the final screening day. On this day we watch all the projects made during the last workshops at the different semesters. Today was no different »
Lasse Mejlvang’s visual project done on the 8th semester is online at Politiken, where it has been the most read story the last two days. Check it out here. There are lot of photos, or see the full project at Mejlvang’s website here. And if you still haven’t got enough Lasse »
Two former international DMJX students, Barbara Beltramello and Dario Bosio are among the founders of the new online magazine called About Photography. About Photography is a free app dedicated to photography and can be downloaded from Itunes Store. The magazine is available in both English and Italian. The people behind »
Selfie by Romana Manpreet. Photo 1 students, spring 2014: Front from left: Sailendra Kharel Romana Manpreet Andrea Arena Back from left: Pascal Giese Benedikt Ziegler Emanuele Camerini Giulia Mangione Felix von der Osten Daria Klimasheva Philipp Jeske Teachers: Thomas Nielsen (top left) Søren Pagter (top right) »
During this week’s marketing game our students come up with all kind of crazy ideas. One of them is a tribute to our old and late C-41 developing machine – known as miss C-41. The four students, Sisse Dupont, Mie Brinkmann, Dennis Lehmann and Malte Kristiansen have arranged a pop-up »
This week our International and Danish final year students are experiencing a marketing game conducted by Marc Prüst. The final year students working in the computer room during the marketing game. Picture by Kishor Sharma. In the game the 14 students make assignments, set up exhibitions, participate in competitions etc. »
The fifth Copenhagen Photo festival starts Thursday this week and runs till the 15th of June. Among the many exhibitions all over Copenhagen you’ll also find some DMJX-projects: Mathias Christensen exhibits his visual project called “The story about fear of the wolves, isolation and the meeting with God”. Screendump from »
