Just before Christmas our Danish third term students finished their web documentary workshop arranged by Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Bombay Flying Club. Danish third term students group picture by Søren Pagter. The nine Danish students all worked with the theme “family” and in pairs they made four different »
In the past weekend Søren Pagter has been visiting Iceland to give a lecture and to work as the head judge at the judging of the Icelandic Picture of the Year. Søren Pagter lecturing at Nyherji in Reykjavik, Iceland. Picture by Oskar Pall Elfarsson. Friday the 16th, Søren Pagter gave a »
The photo blog Slate has published Arko Datto’s project S.A.D. about how to cope with seasonal depression when living in dark areas, like Denmark in the winther time. “My winter depressions started when I was 17. At first, I did not know what it was, but as the years passed by, I »
Earlier this evening the nominees for the Danish Picture of the Year were revealed, and again this year we are proud to have a lot of students among them. To be precise we have 12 students among the 36 nominees. From the 4th semester alone there are 7 nominees! Congratulations »
Friday the 19th we held the traditional project screening, where students from all semesters gather to share the work they’ve done during their final workshops. A great day where a lot of great stories and inspiring work was shown. As it has also become a tradition this final day is »
A picture by Kasper Palnsov has been selected by TImes Magazine as one of the top 100 pictures of the year 2014. People look at the carcass of the giraffe Marius after it was killed in Copenhagen Zoo. Picture by Kasper Palsnov. Kasper Palsnov did the picture while doing his »
The website Photographic Museum of Humanity is this month focussing on Danish photojournalism by showing five selected stories made by Danish photographers. Among the selected photographers are two DMJX projects: Beautiful Child by Lærke Posselt and Unspoken Legacy by Lars Just. Picture from the story Unspoken Leagcy by Lars Just. Lærke Posselt did her story »
Søren Pagter, head of the department of photojournalism, has been announced the head judge of the Icelandic Picture of the Year 2014. The Icelandic Press Photographers Association arranges the competition, which is divided into two groups: one for portrait, magazine, landscape and daily life + one for news, sports and series. »
Evgeny Makarov‘s story about young Russian right wing vigilantes in Moscow is published in the recent edition of the German Dummy Magazin. Evgeny Makarov did the story in the spring 2014 as his final Diploma Project. »
This morning, our final year students have handed in their final BA and Diploma projects. As always the students have been working hard all the way up to deadline and especially the last night has been tough with very little or no sleep. Thursday morning at 8.30 Emanuele and Giulia »
Asger Ladefoged graduated his BA in the spring 2014 with a story about young Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Asger’s story has been published in Berlingske – this Sunday it was published in the printed version of the newspaper and now it can be seen online at www.b.dk. Spread from Sunday’s »
Our international photo1 students have just finished five web documentaries at their workshop with Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Bombay Flying Club. The very sleepy photo1 students after a very long night’s work – together with the more awake teachers. Picture by Søren Pagter. The five stories are presented »
Yesterday, the photographers Dennis Lehmann and Lasse Mejlvang held a reception of their exhibition Inuit.nu in the culture house Taseralik in Sisimiut, Greenland. The opening of Inuit.nu in Sisimiut, Greenland. The exhibition consists of two individual projects from two very different parts of Greenland: the rural Upernavik in the far »
In the past couple of weeks we’ve been busy at the school – first of all with teaching and secondly with updating the website with the wonderful CPOY news. Therefore we have a handful of very different news from the past weeks to share with you. Anders, 18 years old. »
As the last news from cpoy this year DMJX students were awarded an Award of Execellence in the Large Group Multimedia Project Category. This is a short webdocumentary done by Lizz Cardwell and Terje Abusdal on a workshop with Bombay Flying Club i the fall of 2013. This Award of »
On the fourth and last day of the judging of the still photo division at CPOY the two main categories Documentary and Portfolio were judged – And again with an amazing result for our DMJX-students. From the story “One in Eight Hundred” about Emmy who’s born with Down’s Syndrome. Picture »
It’s morning in Denmark and we’re eager to see the results of the third day of judging at CPOY. Before midnight (Danish time) it was already announced that three DMJX-students had great success in the International Picture Story category. This news can be read here. But there was more good »
On the third day at the 69th CPOY a lot of categories were judged. One of the first results to be announced was of the category International Picture Story. In this category three out of the four winners were DMJX-students – an amazing ressult. Angje Vukaj and her daughter Jozefina. »
One additional news update from the first day of CPOY judging: Mohammadreza Soltani won an Award of Excellence in the Portrait Category. Picture by Mohammadreza Soltani. The picture of an elderly Arab woman who takes a cooling bath was the subject of a long discussion in the jury about the »
Brittany Greeson, Kasper Palsnov, Peter Klint Jørgensen, Daniel Ekbladh, Betina Garcia and Asger Ladefoged have all won prizes on the second day of the 69th CPOY competition, where three categories were judged. The Feature Category: Faron Cox of Fordsville, Ky., paces back and forth gathering wood for an open pit »
