Times best pictures commented by Pagter

The magazine Journalisten has asked Søren Pagter, head of the Department of Photojournalism, to comment on Times’ Best Photojournalism 2012 selection. You can read the interview (in Danish) with Søren Pagter on here on Journalisten.dk. »

Mads Greve in Italy for workshop and book presentations

Faculty teacher Mads Greve’s book Blind Date was published by Postcart Edizioni in Rome, Italy, last month, and now Mads is visiting Italy for book presentations in Rome and Milan. In Milan on December 8 Mads will show photos and have a conversation with Emanuela Mirabelli, photo editor of Marie »

Last workshop this semester

As the last thing before beginning the project which finishes the first year in school the Danish 2nd semester finished a portrait workshop last week. Three weeks of only shooting portraits gave some nice photos. Here is a few examples. Photo above by Peter Jørgensen. Photo below by Jonas Fogh. »

Sofie Amalie Klougart in Politiken – again

Saturday Politiken had an interview with Sofie Amalie Klougart about her photos of swingers which was made for the Joop Swart Masterclass. The interview (in Danish) is also online. You can find it here and see photos here. And there’s also interviews with master class photographers at the World Press »

Lærke Posselt joins Moment

Scandinavian photo agency Moment has announced three new members among them Lærke Posselt. Former student Thomas Lekfeldt is a long time member of the agency. See the announcement here. »

Mads Greve at Vilnius Photo Circle

This weekend faculty teacher Mads Greve will visit Lithuania to speak and show his work at the 6th International Press Photo Festival/Vilnius Photo Circle in Vilnius. Saturday there will be lectures by four European photographers and in the evening the award ceremony of The Circle of Life contest will take »

Magnus Holm wins gold in portfolio at cpoy

Magnus Holm wins the final and most important category at cpoy – portfolio with a series of images from very different assignments. At this screencast, you can hear how the news was released by Rick Shaw to Magnus in the middle of the night. Congratulations, Magnus. »

Gold and bronze in documentary at cpoy

The sixth gold medal to one of our students at this year’s cpoy has been given to: Marie Hald for her 7th semester project about the prostitute Bonnie. Marie Hald wins in the documentary category. In the same category Lærke Posselt wins bronze for her story about child beauty contests, »

Two more prizes: international picture story at cpoy

The succes at cpoy continues: Magnus Holm has won gold in the category international pictures story with a series about homeless children in Kharkiv, Ukraine. And in the same category Tor Birk Trads has won Award of excellence with a series of Shia Muslims who commemorate the Day of Ashura »

….And more cpoy winners

This is going to be our most successful year at cpoy. Two more winners from yesterday’s judging: Gold for Nikolai Linares in the category Interpretive Project with a fashion series. And bronze for Andreas Beck in the same category with a series of portraits from the refugee camp jamam, Sudan. »

cpoy Gold Again

Tobias Nørgaard wins gold in cpoy for his series The Wild Boys. Tobias’ gold medal is in the category Domestic Picture Story. In the same category Asbjørn Sand is awarded an Award of Excellence for his story Roll Whatever. Both stories where earlier this year exhibited at the German Lumix »

More gold at cpoy

Bjarke Bo Olsen has won gold in the category general news with a picture from the funeral of 18 year old Cem Aydin who was beaten to death near his home in Copenhagen. This is the second gold medal for our students at this year’s cpoy. »

Cathrine Ertmann in Positive Magazine

Cathrine Ertmann’s story “About Dying” is published in the recent edition of Positive Magazine. There’s a direct link to the story here. The story “About Dying” was made during Cathrine’s 7th semester at our school and has also been published in the French online magazine Le Journal de la Photographie. »

cpoy Gold for Jeppe Bøje

In an earlier post I wrote that Lærke Posselt won the bronze medal of the cpoy portrait category, but it turns out that the gold medal is also one of our students. Jeppe Bøje wins gold for the portrait above. Congratulations to Jeppe and Lærke. »

cpoy Bronze for Lærke Posselt

According to the cpoy screencast Lærke Posselt wins Bronze in the portrait category of copy. It is the third year in a row that Lærke is awarded a medal in this category. See the screencast here. »

Kasper Løftgaard’s winning story in Gaffa magazine

Last week, Kasper Løftgaard won 1st prize in the feature category in Gaffa Photo Award 2012. Now, you can see Kasper’s winning story in this month’s eidtion of the music magazine Gaffa. The magazine is also available as e-paper (Kasper’s story is found at page 62). The wining series of »

Martin Errichiello’s film at four festivals

Martin Errichiello’s final diploma project, “ARCIPELAGHI”, is beeing shown at four festivals this November. “ARCIPELAGHI” is a personal story about a friend, Mohamed, who crossed the Mediterranean Sea for a better life. The film tells about human migration by tracing the paths of identification. It’s an intimate portrait of Mohamed, »