Final screening and farewell day

This Friday was the official last day of the spring term at the photojournalism programmes at DMJX. Most of the photojournalism students gathered for a group picture on the final screening day. Photo by Michael Drost-Hansen. As it has become a tradition we spent the last day screening students’ projects »

New video documentaries online

Our third term students finished their Video Documentary workshop last Thursday and now their stories are ready online. You can watch: Crazy About Food by Sille Veilmark, Benjamin Nørskov and Nanna Navntoft. The Tulip Festival by Sarah Christine Nørgaard and Stine Tidsvilde. The five students start their internship after the »

Fabian Fiechter exhibits at Galerie für Fotografie Hannover

The 18th of May the exhibition called “Vom Aufhören und Weitmachen” was opened at GAF (Galerie für Fotografie Hannover). 20-year old Dastagear taking a shower at the Hospital of Sivananda. Photo by Fabian Fiechter. The exhibition is a farewell exhibition to Rolf Nobel, who has been the head of the »

DMJX students gathered for wedding

Normally, we do not write about private and “gossip” stuff at this website. But, when the story includes a Visual Project and a DMJX-students gathering, we make an exception to the rule. DMJX-students gathered in Egypt. Ever since Roger Anis began studying at DMJX in the fall 2014, he told »

Giulia Mangione’s "Danesland" at FotoLeggendo Festival

Giulia Mangione‘s project Danesland will be exhibited from the 10th till the 12th of June at Fotoleggendo 2016 in Rome. Photo by Giulia Mangione from the project “Danesland”. Giulia began her project back in the spring 2014 and she’s coming back to Denmark this summer to continue the project. Danesland »

Two DMJX-projects nominated for Il Reportage Award

The Italian magazine Il Reportage has launched the 25 projects, which are shortlisted for their Photojournalism Award. Among the nominated candidates are two final DMJX-projects: From the story “Echoes”. Photo by Barbara Leolini. Echoes by Barbara Leolini. Barbara made her project as her final Diploma project in the spring 2015. »

Tor Birk Trads has won the Kravling Award

Yesterday night the award ceremony for the Kravling Awards was held at Vega in Copenhagen. At the ceremony Tor Birk Trads was announced as the winner in the categroy for TV/photography. Tor won with his final BA-project “Det, der er nærmest, er det, vi ikke ser”. Tor Birk Trads on »

Lani Holmberg wins $10,000 grant for final project

Alana Holmberg has been selected to receive the Australian Pool Grant of $ 10,000 to continue her final diploma project Resist Laughter, which she made at DMJX in the fall 2015. Portrait of 20-year old Ela Albayrak – one of the Turkish women, who shares their stories in Alana Holmberg’s »

Sofia Busk and Jonas Fogh’s BA-project in Internazionale

In the fall 2015 Sofia Busk and Jonas Fogh’s co-operated to make their BA-project “De åbne hjerters land” Country of the Open Hearts) – stories from Sweden, where the frustration over and fear of refugees grow. Now, the May edition of the Italian magazine Internazionale has published part of Sofia »

New video documentaries by photo1 students

Our international photo1 students have worked on making video documentaries during the past four weeks. The eight students have had an intensive workshop conducted by Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Bombay Flying Club. During the workshop the students have been tought how to film with DSLR cameras, how to »

Alexandra Hootnick has won PDN Photo Annual

Alexandra Hootnick has been selected the winner of PDN Photo Annual in the category for student work. Examples of a picture from Alexandra Hootnick’s children book, in which Alexandra collaborates with nine-year old Laya, who draws on some of Alexandra’s pictures from Laya’s daily life. Alexandra has won with her »

Interview with Søren Pagter about the Mccurry manipulations

This weekend Magnum photographer Steve Mccurry has been accused for manipulation some of his images. There have been at least three incidents where content of images have been removed to make Mccurry’s pictures look better. Søren Pagter, head of the department of photojournalism, has been interviewed about the incident for »

Sawadika: Pictures from students’ internship

Every half year a new group of students start their one and a half year’s internship. During this time the students produce a huge number of fantastic pictures and it has become a tradition that each group of students make a webpage to show their work made during their internship. »

Stefano and Dario back at school

Monday, former students Stefano Carini and Dario Bosio were back at DMJX to give a lecture about their project: Map of Displacement. Stefano Carini (left) and Dario Bosio at DMJX this Monday. Stefano holding his son, Dario Carini. Photo by Søren Pagter. The two Italian photojournalists talked about how their »

Second term students create magazine from Hvide Sande

Our Danish second term students have just finished their magazine workshop during which they have been in Hvide Sande to make individual stories. The cover of the magazine “Hvide Sande” made by Danish second term students. The eight students have spent one week in Hvide Sande – a small Danish »

Kasper Løftgaard on View Find

Kasper Løftgaard‘s prize winning story about the Texan cowboys is featured online at ViewFind. Picture from Kasper Løftgaard’s project about Texan cowboys and rodeos. Photo by Kasper Løftgaard. Kasper did the project as his final BA-project in the spring 2015. At the following graduation ceremony Kasper was given the Scanpix-prize »

Søren Pagter in the Jury for the Freelens Award

This saturday, Søren Pagter met with the other jury members in Hamburg to select the winners for the Freelens Award and the Lammerhuber-award. The jury members discuss one of the 60 stories, which will be exhibited at the Lumix Festival. Picture by Lennard Schwarz. The jury selected the winner and »

Daria Klimasheva’s Visual Project in Washington Post

Daria (Dasha) Klimasheva’s Visual Project, I will Conquer You, is published online at Washington Post’s In Sight webpage. Self portrait by Daria Klimasheva from her project “I wil Conguer You”. Dasha’s personal project is about how she has dealt with her mother’s depression and how she has overcome it. Dasha »

Four DMJX projects at the fifth Lumix Festival

The projects, which will be shown at the fifth Lumix Festival in June, have been annouced. 60 still picture stories will be exhibited and 21 multimedia stories will be presented. Four DMJX-projects are among the selected stories: Screen shot from Romina Vinci and Ella Kiviniemi’s web documentary “Evidence”. Evidence – »

Stine Tidsvilde in Information and on Instagram

Last week, our third term students ended their reportage workshop and exhibited their stories at the school. Stine Tidsvilde had done a reportage in both pictures and text about “Soldiers of Odin” in Finland. Picture from the story “Soldiers of Odin” by Stine Tidsvilde. This weekend Stine’s story has been »