This week our Danish third semester students are on a Tour-de-internship. The system for finding the right work practise is rather unique. All the (in this case nine) students of photojournalism visit all the media which have a vacancy. The students have the possibliity to learn about the media and »
After a couple of intense workshop weeks the Danish and international students are ready to work on their final projects. The students at their final semester will from now till Christmas work on each their project – the Danish students will make their BA-projects and the international students will make »
Just before summer student of photojournalism Uffe Frandsen won the Danish part of the Prize for Journalism awarded by the EU Parliament (EPPJ Award). The story about the closing down of the Lithuanian powerplant, Ignalina was made with his writing college Steffen Stubager – both working for Jyllands-Posten at that »
Next week faculty teacher Søren Pagter will be in Nepal in order to establish a co-operation with the Nepalese photo organisation photoCircle. The purpose is to create activities within the next two till three years that’ll develop Nepalese photographers. Hopefully the connection to Nepal and PhotoCircle will grow so that »
This week Danish photojournalist David Høgsholt, who is based in Shanghai, is conducting a workshop for the international students. David’s students are working on a documentary project throughout the week. Above David and Nina Weymann-Schulz are going through her work, while Amy Johansson is looking over the shoulder. Last week »
Photojournalist Jeppe Bøje Nielsen (internship at Berlingske Media) located the identity of the bomb man who is in police custody after a bombing accident at Hotel Jørgensen in Copenhagen last week. The police had tried to identify the bomb man for four days, but without any luck. So they released »
Anders Petersen with his new t-shirt. Last Friday our students from eight’ semester and students from the advanced international class ended an intense workshop with the Swedish photographer Anders Petersen. The students payed tribute to the world famous photographer by surprising him with exclusively made t-shirts for the whole class »
Summer is definately over and the school has been taken over by enthusiastic students. And this year we’re proud to announce that we have our first photojournalist student from the African continent. James Njuguna from Nairobi, Kenya has started together with eight other international students at The Language of Photojournalism »
Faculty teacher and photographer Mads Greve will be at Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan next week. At the festival Mads Greve will be conducting a workshop for Danish photographers. It’s the third time Mads Greve is running this popular workshop where the Danish photographers get a unique chance to meet »
“The more your work is connected to you, the more unique it is”, said Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol at a three hours inspiring lecture today in the auditorium at DSMJ. The lecture was our official welcome-the-autumn-semester for all the students – a chance to meet eachother across classes. Jacob »
The students are back at school and DSMJ is alive again. We’re looking forward to an interesting autumn semester with a lot of guests. Among others: – The prize winning and world famous photographers Kent Klich, Anders Petersen and Marcus Bleasdale – who will run workshops at the 8th semester. »
Besides a big runthru in design and adding some extra features such as RSS feeds (See below in the footer) and more advanced filtering of the projects, another service has been added. Students Books and Magazines are now available here on the site. Have a look at some of them »
At the graduation ceremony for the new photojournalists and journalists Jonathan Bjerg Møller was awarded the Scanpix prize for best BA project. The project called Megacity is about Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, which is experienceing a huge growth in population. »
A lot of DSMJ students, both former and present were represented at the second Lumix festival in Hannover. Not only at the exhibitions, but also at the lectures at the festival. Friday, at a discussion about multimedia storytelling, Jonathan Bjerg-Møller, Mathias Christensen and Roberto Boccaccino were telling about their way »
After studying with us for one semester the 10 international students finished their time with us yesterday. At their final workshop they each did a final project produced in either a magazine layout or as an online production. The projects was shown at a wonderful farewell reception yesterday, Wednesday the »
In these days we’re glad to have a visitor from Missouri Univeristy. Faculty teacher Rita Reed arrived Thursday the 10th in the Danish summer rain. Rita got over the jet lag and already the day after she was ready to look at portfolios together with some Danish students from all »
Earlier we’ve written that four students have been nominated for the Freelens Award at the Lumix Festival Hannover. Now four more students have been nominated in the multimedia categori at the same festival. The four students are among only 21 selected photographers. – Jonathan Bjerg-Moeller with the story Aila’s Victims »
We are happy to announce a milestone of project #100 here on Danish Photojournalism »
This year we have received 213 applications for the Danish BA-programme. This is 10 per cent more than last year and the highest number of applicants ever. Within the next month we’ll conduct the application process and finally select the 16 students for the new classes of photojournalism. Good luck »
Europa-huset, which is the European Union’s information office in Copenhagen, exhibits photos until April 16. The theme of the exhibition is fighting poverty. Current and former students are represented at the exhibition. The current students are Cathrine Ertmann, Mette Frandsen, Tobias Selnæs Markussen, Michael Bothager and Nikolai Linares. »
