Magazine launch by second term students

Our second terms students have finished their magazine workshop and they launch their magazine called Mellemrum (the space in between) at a reception Friday the 11th of May. The eigth students have been in the south of Jutland and the magazine consists of stories from the border area. The photojournalists »

Theo Erbenius in Piel de Foto

Theo Erbenius’ photo story about the Indian kushti wrestlers is published in this month’s edition of Piel de Foto. Theo made the story as his final reportage project while he was studying at the Language of Photojournalism. »

Five new online stories from int. students

Friday, our international students from the course The Language of Photojournalism finished their online workshop. Their five stories are now released online and can be seen at our In Casu website. The students worked in pairs with the stories. And the ten students behind the work are: Filippo Menichetti and »

Nikolai Linares at WPO

This weekend Nikiolai Linares and Søren Pagter are participating in the Sony World Photography Awards in Somerset House in London. Nikolai Linares is one out of only ten students to be selected for the Student Focus Award. The ten finalist have each made a series of images on the topic »

Lærke Posselt at World Press Photo

This weekend, Lærke Posselt, first prize winner in the portrait category at World Press Photo, participated in the Award Days in Amsterdam. The Winners’ reception in Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. Lærke Posselt and the other Danish winner, Jan Dagø, with their personalized cataloques. Each winner gets a cataloque with his »

Sofie Amalie Klougart selected for Joop Swart Masterclass

World Press Photo announced earlier today the selected young photographers for this years’ Joop Swart Masterclass. Among them was Sofie Amalie Klougart who is currently doing her 7th semester. The masterclass will be held in Amsterdam in November. The theme of the masterclass is Trust. Sofie was chose among 165 »

Award Days in Amsterdam

This weekend the World Press Photo award days are held in Amsterdam – Two days of presentations made by the winning photographers. Plus, of course, the award ceremony and the opening of the official World Press Photo exhibition in Oude Kerk. Lærke Posselt, student in her final year and first »

High level among applicants

These weeks we’re assessing the applicants for both the Danish BA-education and for the two international programmes. And once again we have had a record high number of highly qualified candidates. 273 candidates enrolled for the admission test for the Danish BA-education. 177 of them fulfilled the first one-week test »

Meeting the minister for development cooperation

Yesterday, Søren Pagter met with the minister for development cooperation, Christian Friis Bach, to tell about the cooperation with photo.circle in Nepal. The meeting was a part of the ministers visit in Aarhus where he was introduced to different developing projects around the world. Søren Pagter talked about the many »

BIG prints and magazine launch

Today two groups of students exhibited their work in the aula at DMJX: The eight Danish students from third semester exhibit pictures and stories from their reportage workshop. And the prints are big and really catches the eyes of everybody passing by in the aula. The ten international students have »

Five students exhibit at the Lumix Festival

Today, the Lumix Festival released the projects that will be shown at the festival this year: 60 printed stories and 22 mulitmedia stories. Among the names were five students and student projects from DMJX: Sara Galbiati, who graduated in 2010, will exhibit her final BA project Lucha Libre about Mexican »

Winners at the Kravling award

Two students of photojournalism won at the Kravling award ceremony yesterday. Tobias Selnæs Markussen won the prize for the best photojournalistic student project with his story Autopia. Autopia tells about the car culture in the USA and is Tobias’ final BA-project from 2011. Cathrine Ertmann won together with a group »

Amy Johansson wins second prize at Swedish POY

At the Swedish POY 2012 award cermony today in Malmö Amy Johansson won a second prize in the multimedia category. Amy won with the story 88 1/2 about the american filmmaker Jack O’Connell – a story she made as her final Diploma Project at the school in 2011. »

School exhibition at Copenhagen Photo Festival

 Would you like to exhibit your work at the Copenhagen Photo Festival in June 2012 – and thereby promote our photojournalism education? We have been offered space at the photo festival and we will use it to show some of the most interesting work made at the Danish School of »

Astrid Dalum BA project in Politiken

Sunday the 4th of March Politiken publshed a two pages layout showing Astrid Dalums BA-project called I’m a Woman. The story is also available online at politiken.dk. »

Two first prizes at Danish POY

At the award ceremony for the Danish POY at The National Library in Copenhagen today three students were awarded a first prize and additional three students won honorable second prizes. Tobias Nørgaard Pedersen won first prize in the category Reportage, Denmark for a story about the PlayStation Proletariat, a group »

Three students nominated for Foto-Kravling

Louise Leth-Espensen, Nikolai Linares and Tobias Selnæs Markussen have been nominated for this year’s Kravling Prize in photojournalism. Louise has been nominated for her project An Unthinkable Love about the relationship between two men. Nikolai has been nominated for his personal project about becoming a father called When You’re Having »

Søren Pagter in TV2

Tomorrow, Friday the 22nd of February the TV2 programme Go’ Aften Østjylland will broadcast an interview with Søren Pagter. The interview will focus on how to educate photojournalists and the succes of Danish photojournalism. The background for the interview is the anniversery of the Danish Press Photographers’ Association and the »

Morten Germund in Berlingske TV

Berlingske online TV shows an almost four minutes long interview with Morten Germund, who recently won second prize in the category Newspaper Photographer of the Year in POYI. Morten Germund did his internship at Berlingske Media and won at POYI with a portfolio from his time at the newspaper. Right »

More POYi. This time Linares.

Again one of our students are among the final contesters in POYi. Last night Nikolai Linares was awarded Award Of Exellence in Sport Picture Story for the story “The Road to Defeat” about the icehockey team Rødovre Mighty Bulls. »