The Nepal project is running

Today our partners from Photo Circle in Nepal have launched information on our first colaboration workshop in Kathmandu. This workshop is called Introduction to Visual Story Telling and is the first step of a number of activities that Photo Circle and DSMJ will run within the next year in Kathmandu. »

Mette Frandsen wins the Scanpix Prize

Mette Frandsen portrayed by Melissa Ørnstrup. Mette Frandsen, who graduated in the autumn 2010, wins the Scanpix prize for the best photojournalistic BA project. Mette Frandsen recieved the prestigious prize for her project Sin City from Las Vegas. The prize was handed out today at the graduation ceremony at DSMJ. »

Six students nominated in the Danish POY

Yesterday evening the names of the photographers nominated for the Danish Press Photo of the Year 2010 was published on the website of Pressefotografforbundet  (The Danish Press Photographers Association). Among the 23 names are six current students or students who graduated in 2010. The nomianted students are: – Mette Frandsen, »

Photo prize given by the daily Information

For the second time the daily Information launces their photo prize for Danish students of photojournalism. The prize will be given to a student who have given the readers pictures of high quality despite the daily deadlines and demands. Therefore the prize will only be given to a student who »

Søren Pagter in the Finnish POY jury

Faculty teacher and head of the Department for Photojournalism, Søren Pagter, has been appointed to the jury of the Finnish Press Photo of the Year 2010. The three persons jury will meet in the middle of January to select the best pictures made by Finnish photographers in 2010. The winners »

Mads Greve in the Danish POY jury

Facuty teacher Mads Greve will be in the jury for the Danish Press Photo of the Year 2010. Mads Greve will be judging the still picture category together with four other jury members: – Christiane Breustedt, former editor from GEO magazine.  – Leif Davidsen, journalist og writer. – Lars Krabbe, »

Ready for Christmas Holiday

Today the international students from the Advanced class had their final exams with an externatal examinator. In the afternoon we held a reception saying goodbye to all the international students who have studied with us in this autumn. Luckily a lot of them will stay and continue in the Advanced »

Diploma projects in the magazine PRIVATE

The winther editon of the photo magazine Private presents two diploma projects made by international students from DSMJ. Antonia Zennaro shows her story Down There about the Reeperbahn district in Hamburg. And Lene Münch shows her story The Secret World of Fraternities about the culture and traditions of German fraternities. »

We’re back online

Sorry! Our website has been down for the past 24 hours, but now we’re back again. The domain name www.danishphotojournalism.dk has been working all the time. »

Dennis Lehmann wins third prize

Dennis Lehmann, Danish student of photojournalism, is a part of a team of three DSMJ-students who won third prize at Danidas World Picture Competition. Together with the journalist students Nola Grace Gaardmand and Timothy K. Ahrensbach, Dennis won with the story “Home of the golden gays”. The movie will be »

Andreas Bro exchange student at Mizzou

Every year we welcome a lot of international students for our two international courses. This creates an international atmosphere here in Århus.  But our Danish students also go abroad to work as exchange students around the world. This semester we have two students at Pathshala in Dhaka, Bangladesh and one »

New magazine online

Our Danish second term students have launched their magazine made during a magazine workshop these past three weeks. All the stories in the magazine are from the Danish holiday island, Bornholm – The students visited the island for one week outside the tourist season. You can browse through the magazine »

Gold for Asbjørn Skovkjær Sand at cpoy

Again today a student from the Danish School of Media and Journalism wins at cpoy. This time Asbjørn Skovkjær Sand, who won Award of Excellence three days ago, wins gold in the category Pictorial. Asbjørn is doing his internship at Fyens Stiftstidende. The winning photo is from a project Asbjørn did »

cpoy again today

Two more Award of Excellences today: Cathrine Ertmann, who is in her internship at Jyllands-Posten, and Nikolai Linares , who is doing his intern at Berlingske Tidende, both won in the category domestic picture story today. You can check out Cathrine’s winning story here or below. And Nikolai’s story here. »

Silver for Lærke Posselt at cpoy

Lærke Posselt who is doing her internship at Politiken has won silver in the portrait category at CPOY. The winning picture shows the Danish writer and filmmaker Jørgen Leth, who lost his home after the earthquake in Haiti. »

Award of Excellence

Asbjørn Skovkjær Sand, intern at Fyens Stiftstidende,  wins Award of Excellence in the Sports Feature category in cpoy. See the photo here. »

Students’ story in Samvirke

On our third semester we have a four week workshop where photojournalists and writing journalists cooperate on making reportage and portrait stories from Denmark. This autumn two students, journalist Lotte Ørum Rystedt and photographer Gorm Olesen, made a reportage about hunters on one of the first early mornings of the »

New magazine online

The nine international students from The Language of Photojournalism have launched their magazine made during a three week magazine workshop. The stories in the magazine addresses different challenges of Europe – for instance Romas in Romania, drug addicts in Denmark, struggling with cancer in Norway and other interesting issues. »

Mie Brinkmann wins 1st prize at Gaffa Photo award

Three students were awarded in the Gaffa Photo Award 2010 yesterday. Mie Brinkmann won 1st prize in the Portrait category with the above photo of Soho Rezanejad, and in the Feature category Dennis Lehmann won 2nd prize and Nikolai Linares won 3rd prize. Mie’s photo was shot on an assignment on »

Highest number of international applicants

This past week faculty teachers Mads Greve and Søren Pagter have been going through the applications for our two international courses – The Language of Photojournalism and Advanced Visual Story Telling. This year we’ve recieved the highest number of applicants ever and on top on that: a very qualified selection »