DMJX instagram in the hands of the students

This week the DMJX instagram is taken over by photojournalist student Tobias Nicolai, who is in Vietnam shooting a story about the consequenses of the American use of Agent Orange during the war which ended 40 years ago. Check it out here. And find Tobias’ personal instagram here. »

Three second terms students part of local exhibition

This Friday the photo exhibition “Det Levende Aarhus” opened in Musikhuset, Aarhus. Picture by Nanna Navntoft selected for the exhibition “Det Levende Aarhus”. The exhibition focusses on man, nature and animal life in the city and it’s the first step to a much bigger outdoor event with 100 pictures, which will »

Søren Pagter in national radio

During the past weeks a lot of different news images from the current refugee crisis have been published and shared both in Denmark and abroad. Especially three images have been debated here in Denmark: – The picture of the three-year-old Turkish boy, Aylan, who died during his and his family’s »

Sisse Stroyer and "Sexting" in Sydsvenskan

The Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan has published an interview with Sisse Stroyer about her project “Sexting”. Picture from the Sexting project, which is a collection of modern “love letters” sent by mobile phones from one person to another. Sisse began the project back in 2010 as her Visual Project during her »

"Evidence" now out in Germany

Romina Vinci and Ella Kiviniemi‘s video documentary “Evidence” is now available with German subtitles since it has been published on Zeit Online. Screen-shot from the video documentary “Evidence” by Romina Vinci and Ella Kiviniemi. Romina and Ella made the story about the refugee Kidane Berhe during their web documentary workshop »

Nagisaki Photo Blog

The class which just begun their internships in August created a photo blog called Nagisaki, where they show their work made on the newspapers where they intern – two of them in Cambodia. Check it out here. »

Janus Engel caught in a tough media debate

Janus Engel, who has just finished his internship at Politiken, has been caught in a media debate about his project: “Life by the Edge of the Water“. It all began before summer, when Janus went to the island Langeland to do a one-month reportage as his final story while interning »

Five students selected for the STATUS15 exhibition

For the first time the Danish organization DJ:fotograferne has arranged a censored exhibition – Status:15 – which will show the current status of professional Danish photography – divided into five different categories: photojournalism, art, portraiture, commercial and communication. 320 photographers submitted in all 3400 pictures for the censored exhibition and »

A very present DMJX-story published in Italy

In the spring, during Photo1, Romina Vinci and Ella Kiviniemi made the video documentary “Evidence” about Kidane Berhe, who had escaped from Eritrea and ended up in an asylum center in Ranum in the north of Denmark. Kidane Berhe sitting by the coast in Denmark. Picture by Romina Vinci and Ella »

Barbara Leolini’s "Echoes" published in Russia

Barbara Leolini’s final diploma project “Echoes” has been published in issue no. 114 of the Russian Esquire magazine. Barbara did the story about the supernatural and about Italian ghost hunteres in the spring 2015. »

Peter Klint on this year’s CPOY poster

I’ve just received this year’s CPOY poster, which promotes the competition at photographic schools all over the world. The poster’s cover picture is by DMJX-student Peter Klint from his story about integration at Danish school camps. Last year, Peter won bronze in the Single Picture Feature Category with this picture. »

DMJX at Visa pour l’Image

This week a group of DMJX-students have participated in a new students’ forum at Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan, France. The organisation has invited a handful of students from each of the schools in St. Petersburg, London, Hannover, Perpignan, Barcelona and Aarhus to participate in the festival and to follow »

Family.Life in Pixel Magazine

The Famliy.Life project, which DMJX participated in in the autumn 2014 is now featured in Polarr’s Pixel Magazine. The Family.Life project is conducted by the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, who has invited 32 schools from 16 countries to create photojournalistic stories within the topic; family life. The story “Down »

Mads Nissen and Patrick Brown at DMJX

Today, the Danish World Press Winner Mads Nissen gave a welcoming lecture for all our photojournalist students. Mads Nissen preparing for his lecture in the auditorium at DMJX. Picture by Søren Pagter. Mads Nissen showed his prize winning story “Homofobia in Russia” and talked about his way into photojournalism and »

Marcel Maffei wins Canon Profifoto Förderpreis

Photo2 student Marcel Maffei has just been announced as one of the winners of the German Canon Profifoto Förderpreis, which is given to young talented German photographers. Picture from Marcel Maffei’s winning story from “Ponichala” – a Georgian ghetto for blind people. Marcel Maffei wins with his story about a post »

Pieter ten Hoopen at DMJX

This week the Dutch/Swedish photographer Pieter ten Hoopen is teaching our final year students at DMJX. Pieter ten Hoopen portrayed in front of one of his pictures from the book “Hungry Horse”. Picture by Søren Pagter. Today, as a part of his visit Pieter has been lecturing all our students »

Kasper Løftgaard in TV Midt/Vest

Kasper Løftgaard, who graduated this June, was guest of the week in TV Midt/Vest, yesterday. Click the image to watch the full interview with Kasper Løftgaard. In the interview, Kasper Løftgaard talks about his final BA-project: “Otte sekunder for resten af livet” – a story about Shawn Hogg and Hawkins »

"Closets full of dreams" in Arabic

Roger Anis’ final diploma project “Closets full of dreams” has been published in the Egyptian Shorouk newspaper. The Shorouk newspaper is one of the few independent newspapers in Egypt and Roger is working there as a photojournalist since 5 years.  Roger Anis, who is back at work in Cairo after one »

DMJX-students at Slide Luck in Rome

On the 4th of September the Slide Luck show is held in Rome. The show is an evening of photography projections and food. Four DMJX-stidents will present their work at the screening: – Barbara Leolini will show her final diploma project “Echoes”. – Emanuele Camerini will show his final diploma »

With coffee and love

The first intense week of the fall semester has come to an end. Some students have already done their first stories, others have discussed visual strategies and C41TLYN, our developing machine, has been busy. Monday, even more students will begin their classes with us. Speaking of classes. In the class »