Søren Pagter in the magazine Journalisten

The magazine Journalisten writes in the recent edition about the official portraits of the members of the Danish Parliament. In the article they’ve asked Søren Pagter to comment on the very stylistic portraits: Have too much Photoshop been used? How to the readers interpret the portraits? According to Søren Pagter »

Magazine release

Our Danish second semester students have just released the magazine called Uden for sæson (Out of Season). The magazine is the final product after a magazine workshop where the students have worked with individual stories from the holiday area Tisvilde in Denmark.  The eight students behind the stories and the »

Hanna Lenz story published in Samvirke

Former international student Hanna Lenz has a story published in the recent edition of the magazine Samvirke. On page no. 54 and three spreads ahead there’s a picture story about 97-year old Else Riper Engling. Hanna Lenz made the portrait story about Else Riper Engling during the magazine workshop in »

Release of five new online stories

Our international students have just finished their online workshop with Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Bombay Flying Club. The ten students have worked in groups of two persons and made stories within five different topics. The online stories are now available on the website In Casu. The five stories »

Patrick Brown visiting DSMJ

Tomorrow, Friday the 18th of November, the Australian photographer Patrick Brown, Panos Pictures will visit DSMJ. Patrick will give a lecture at 2 pm in the new TV-auditorium. The lecture is open for everybody, so if you’re in Aarhus please feel free to join us. You can see some of »

Guests from Nepal

In the following week we’ll have guests from photo.circle, Nepal visiting the school in Aarhus. NayanTara, Bhushan, Kishor and Prasiit came to Denmark this Tuesday and the purpose of their visit is to give them a thorough insight in teaching photojournalism. Therefore they’ll follow different workshops while they’re here and »

Linares wins again

On the final day at CPOY the judges selected the winners in the two most prestigious categories, Documentary and Portfolio. The winner of the portfolio categori is named College Photographer of the Year 2011. And again a student from DSMJ were among the winners: Nikolai Lineres won silver in the »

The CPOY succes continues

It’s amazing. One gold, one silver and one award of excellence on the third day of CPOY. Ahmed Hayman, international student from Egypt, wins gold in the category Domestic Picture Story with a series about the revolution in Egypt. The revolution started two days after Ahmeds arrival in Denmark in »

One more CPOY winner

I was just informed that one more student have won award of excellence on the second day of CPOY: Jeppe Bøje from 8th semester won in the category Illustration with a picture called grown up. And Asbjørn Sand reminded me that he finished his internship this summer and is back »

Asbjørn Sand wins at CPOY

Asbjørn Sand has won with three different pictures on the second day at CPOY. Asbjørn Sand, who is currently doing his internship at Fyens Stiftstidende won award of excellence in: The feature category with a picture from the unofficial national championship for drag queens. The pictorial category with a picture »

Four winners on first day of CPOY

The prestigious competition Coillege Photographer of the Year 2011 (CPOY) bagan their judging yesterday in Columbia, Missouri and four students from our school were among the winners on the first day: Sports Action. Gold and Award of excellence to Michael Hansen for two different boxing images. Michael Hansen has just »

Two students win at best music picture of the year

Nikolai Linares Larsen wins best music picture of the year 2011 with a portrait of the Danish singer Søren Huss – the portrait was also the best music portrait of the year. Nikolai is right now at his 8th semester. Camilla Rønde wins in the category best music feature with »

Exhibition and book launch – in Nepal

If you happen to be in Kathmandu, Nepal on Friday the 4th of November, i’ll encourage you to take part in the opening of the exhibition The Constant Change and the launch of the book by the same name. The exhibition will open at 4 pm at Nepal Art Council, »

Magazine launch

Our international students studying at the course The Language of Photojournalism have just finished a magazine after a four week magazine workshop. The ten international photographers have worked with individual stories under the subject: Challenges of Europe. They have done all the work from scratch: research, photographing, writing, editing and »

Fotografisk salon, Aarhus

A group of people in Aarhus have organized a club for students of photography and others who’re interested in the broad specture of photography. The club is called Fotografisk Salon, Aarhus. The purpose of the club is to arrange lectures that can inspire and create a debate, for instance about »

Welcome with a lecture by Andrei Polikanov

Now, all students of photojournalism are back at school. This last Thursday we had our traditionel welcomming reception for all photo students. We had the chance to say hello to everybody and the students could meet across the different semesters. We also had an inspiring lecture about contemporary Russian photography »

Søren Pagter back in Nepal

Editing at photo.circle This week Søren Pagter will be at photo.circle in Kathmandu, Nepal to conduct a workshop together with photojournalist Mads Nissen. The workshop is the final part of a master class for 12 Nepali photographers. The 12 photogrpahers have been working for two months with the theme evolution »

New feature: Link collection

We’re proud to announce that we have a new feature on Danish Photojournalism: a link collection where the links are sorted in different categories and each link has a short description. This makes it easy to navigate between the many links. As a member you can also suggest a link »

Canon Prize to Nina Weymann-Schulz

Nina Weymann-Schulz (Germany) who finished our Advanced Visual Story Telling this spring has won the Canon ProfiFoto Award in Germany. Nina won with her visual project from Chinatown in New York – a project that she made here at DSMJ. The award is a 2000 € scholarship and a publication »

A great selection of online stories

On the new website In Casu we have made a collection of online stories told by students at DSMJ. Each semester we run two multimedia workshops together with Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Bombay Flying Club. On these workshop our international and Danish students produce a lot of high »