Søren Pagter on national television

On Monday the 1st of August Søren Pagter will be giving photographic advice in the television programme Aftenshowet on DR1, national television. A viewer has written to the show to ask for advice in order to become better at making pictures. In the programme Søren Pagter will give some basic »

Lasse Bak Mejlvang giving photographic advice on national TV

On Go’ Morgen Danmark, a morning talkshow on the national Danish TV2 last week, Lasse Bak Mejlvang gave advice on how to shoot photos when on vacation.  To prove his points Lasse used a small digital camera and showed photos shot at Roskilde Festival. Check out the show here. »

DSMJ students selected for Eddie Adams workshop

Six current and former students have been selected to participate in the Eddie Adams Workshop October 2011. The students are: – Sonja Och, Germany, who graduated our Advanced Visual Story Telling Programme this summer. – Eve Edelheit, US, who studied as an exchange student at our Language of Photojournalism programme »

Galbiati and British Journal of Photography

At the website of British Journal of Photography Sara Galbiati shows her BA project, Lucha Libre. You will also find an interview with Sara, where she talks about the project and about the school. Sara did her project in the spring of 2010 and it won a first prize at »

Scanpix prize for Peter Helles

At the ceremony for the graduating photojournalists and journalists today Peter Helles was awarded the Scanpix Prize for the best photojournalism BA. Peter received the award for his project Supernormal, where he uses statistics to find the most average within different fields, and in the photos shows the average Danes. »

Group sketch

It’s tradition to make a group picture to remember your fellow students by – and our international students from The Language of Photojournalism have made one group image every time they’ve had a new teacher or guest lecturer. Then today I saw a new version of the group image – »

Farewell reception for Photo 2 students

Today we had to say goodbye to our ten international students who have been studying at Advanced Visual Story Telling. Most of the students have been with us for a whole year, since they have also participated in the Language of Photojournalism programme. All students grauduated their exams yesterday and »

Nikolai Linares wins nature competition

Nikolai Linares has won a competition with the theme Nature without man with this picture from the Wadi Rum Dessert in Jordan. The competition was launched by the international magazine Youth Time, Prague, Czech Republic. »

DSMJ at Copenhagen Photo Festival

Even though DSMJ doesn’t have it’s own student exhibition at the comming Copenhagen Photo Festival the school is represented at some of the exhibitions around the city: Mette Frandsen is showing her prize winning BA project Sin City at Bryghuset in Photo City. Mette Frandsen graduated last year and won »

Katie Currid in Eurocities Book

This picture by international student Katie Currid (US) has been selected to represent Aarhus in the Eurocities book. Aarhus is a part of a Eurocities network of more than 140 European cities. This network will publish a book with a picture from each city. Katie Currids picture is a part »

Master Class with Mads Nissen in Nepal

We have selected and announced the participants for the Master Class for Nepali photographers. Photojournalist Mads Nissen, Berlingske Media and a former student will run the workshop from the 12th of June. The selected photographers are: Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka, Kishor K Sharma, Narendra Shrestha, NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, Nirman Shrestha, Phurpu »

New York Photo Award for Lene Münch

Lene Münch, Germany, who studied at DSMJ last year have won the student category Photographic Book in this year’s New York Photo Awards. Lene Münch handed in her project about German fraternities – a project made while studying at DSMJ. »

Student magazine from Orø

Our Danish second term students went to the Danish Island Orø for one week during their magazine workshop and we’re proud to launch their magazine called Den bedre halvdel/The Better Half. The students behind the magazine are: Tine Sletting Jakobsen, Lars Just, Torkil Adsersen, Jesper Mortensen, Marcus Trappaud Bjørn and »

Forum ready for launch!

We are excited to share with you that our new forum is now online and ready to work. This forum is for members from all groups since 1992 and up till today. Visitors may visit and read every single forum and thread. But its only our members who will actually »

Scholarship for Peter Helles

Peter Helles who is currently working on his BA assignment has received a working scholarship from Danida. Together with journalist Mira Kellermann, he is going to Kenya to do a film with the working title: Susan and her magnificent Message Service. Each year Danida hands out 10 scholarships of D.kr. »

Stories from Nepal

Recently I wrote about our co-operation with Photo.Circle in Nepal and that our first project – a one month basic course in photojournalism – had been a succes. Now some of the pictures from the course are launched online – made by the 20 young Nepali photographers who attended the »

Student’s story published in 3F magazine

The trade union magazine Fagbladet 3F has bought and published a story by Danish student Camilla Rønde. During the magazine workshop on 2nd semester Camilla and her class mates went to the island of Bornholm to do individual stories and published them in an online student magazine, Furthest to the »

News from Down Under

Today I received great news from a former int. student, Andrew Mackinnon, who studied at DSMJ in the spring 2010. Andrew have won Student Photojournalist Story of the year in Australia & New Zealand with a online project he made while studying in Aarhus.The story has also been selected to »

101 men and women at ARoS

Almost five years ago Sofia Wraber and Nanna Kreutzmann made an extraordinary visual project during their final semester at DSMJ. The two photojournalists portrayed 101 men within a project period of four weeks. And it was not just 101 random men, it was one man representing each age from zero »

Magazine launch

Our nine international students from the programme The Language of Photojournalism have just finished a three week magazine workshop where each of them have made a story including pictures, text and layout. The entire magazine Europe’s New Challenges is now available online and Friday the 15th of April at 1pm »