Today, on the last day of the autumn semester at DMJX, we’re having a full day of project screening. All students from all semesters show their work made on the final workshops this year – starting with work made by second term Danish students and ending with the final Diploma »
Lærke Posselt’s project Beautiful Child produced on her 7th semester is awarded a 4th prize at Unicef photo of the year. More info here. »
New York Times’ Lensblog publishes photos from Jeppe Bøje’s bachelor project about the French town of Lourdes. See Lensblog here. »
Today Danish daily Information publish Marie Hald’s story about Bonnie who is a mother and a prostitute. The story is also online. Read it here and see the Marie’s work here. Last month Marie was awarded the gold medal of the Documentary category in cpoy for this story. »
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. »
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 »
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. »
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 »
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. »
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 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. »
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, »
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 »
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. »
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 »
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. »
More great news from the cpoy-judging: Magnus Holm has won Award of Excellence in the spot news category at cpoy. »
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. »
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. »
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. »
