This week is the professional week at the Visa Pour l’image in Perpignan with lectures, meetings and a lot of exhibitions. For the first time, both DMJX-teachers of photojournalism are present at the festival. As it has almost become a tradition, Mads Greve is conducting an after-education workshop for a »
Today the fall semester was kicked of with a lecture for all photojournalist students by Swedish photographer Martin Bogren. Bogren talked about and showed photos from his books Lowlands and Tractor Boys. He also gave a peek on a new ongoing project. »
Kiên Hoàng Lê, international student from Germany, graduated this summer with a his project Veils and Hoods from an Abbey in Stühlingen, Germany. Kiên Hoàng Lê stayed one month with the brothers and sisters in the abbey and he made a warm and close story about their life with God »
The leading British photography magazine Hotshoe have published a part of Arko Datto‘s cybersex project and interviewed him about it on their website. You can read the interview here. Photo by Arko Datto. Arko made his project as his final reportage assingment this spring. »
Jeppe Bøje Nielsen’s final BA project Lourdes is among the ten projects selected for the Croatian Photo Festival Organ Vida. Jeppe Bøje Nielsen graduated in 2012 with this project about the holy city of Lourdes. The project was also recently exhibited at the Copenhagen Photo Festival this summer. 390 projects »
Marie Hald recieved the Scanpix Prize this semester for her BA project Magic City. Marie did her project in Miami about people searching for the good life. Check out Magic City here. »
When the school’s color negative developer closed for the summer we had developed 1.365 films this semester! That is a new record for the digital age (which is where we have kept track of the number) and it is more than 500 films more than the previous record of »
Julia Lindemalm, international student from Sweden, graduated in 2011 with her project Zoo World – forever apart about the paradox in the living conditions in the zoos. Now, her project is exhibited in Galleri Kontrast, Stockholm, Sweden from the 19th of June till the 18th of August. »
Tomorrow is officially the final day of school this semester – even though a few students still need to go to exams. We’re celebrating it with a project screening day where all photojournalists from all semesters show their work done on the final workshops this semester. The BA-project Cosplay by »
Friday the 7th was the official opening of the Copenhagen Photo Festival – the festival offers a huge amount of exhibitions and lectures all over town in the following weeks. Among the exhibitions is 8xPersonalProjects in Øksnehallen, which opens next Friday on the 14th of June. Four out the eight »
On 7th semester Lasse Bak Mejlvang did a project about the bicycle culture of Beira, a city in Mozambique. The story is about how bicycles play an important role in changing the lives and living conditions of the people of Beira. Now Lasse’s photos are exhibited at Copenhagen Photo Festival »
This week both our Danish and international final year students are playing a marketing game conducted by photography consultant Marc Prüst. This is a totally new kind of workshop at our school. The purpose is to prepare the students for the future and to teach them about the market mechanisms »
This Sunday the Danish daily, Jyllands-Posten, published Sofia Busk’s third term reportage about a witch doctor from Tanzania. Sofia made the story during a reportage workshop at school conducted by Peter Hove, staff photographer at Politiken. After the summer break Sofia will start her internship at Jyllands-Posten. »
This weekend the POYi award ceremony is held at Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, USA. Final year student Magnus Holm, who won College Photographer of the Year at CPOY, recieves his prize at the award ceremony tonight and have shown his work at a lecture today. Magnus Holm »
Tobias Selnæs Markussen who graduated in 2011 has been selected for the book The Other Hundred. Picture from Tobias Selnæs Markussens project A Difficult Lovestory. The Other Hundred is project of the Global Institute for Tomorrow – GIFT. The key idea of The Other Hundred is to focus make on »
In the past days the terrifying pictures from the killing in Woolwich, London have been shown and debated all over the world. Today, Søren Pagter, was interviewed in both Danish public radio and in national television about the ethics in showing this kind of pictures. Picture by: Mads Greve You »
The PDN Photo Annual 2013 winners were recently announced. Among them were Lærke Posselt, Marie Hald and Lasse Mejlvang. Lærke wins in the Photojournalism/Documentary category and Marie and Lasse win in the Student Work category. Lærke Posselt’s work here, Marie Hald’s work here, and Lasse Mejlvangs work here. »
Our international students have finished their magazine workshop and launch their magazine both online and at an exhibition in the front hall at the school. The exhibition opens with a small reception Friday the 3rd of May at 12.30. The ten students behind the magazine are: Andrew SchriverJasper BastianNatalie BeckerMassimo »
While being in Amsterdam to receive her World Press Photo prize Marie Hald won one more prize tonight. At the award ceremony for the Kravling student prizes Marie Hald was announced the winner of the Fotokravling. Marie Hald won with her 7th semester project about Bonnie. Read more at the »
This weekend World Press Photo celebrates this year’s winners at the annual award days in Amsterdam. Marie Hald next to her prize winning portrait at Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. Today, final year student Marie Hald will show her full story about Bonnie and tonight she’ll receive her second prize in »
