Gold and silver in CPOY portrait category

Sunday, the judging of the 69th CPOY contest began at Missouri University in Columbia, USA. The three first categories to be judged were sports action, spot news and portrait and two DMJX-students won gold and silver in the portrait category: Aleksander, 22. Picture by Jasper Bastian. Jasper Bastian won gold »

Sofia Busk wins Informations Fotopris

Photo by Sofia Busk. The purpose of Informations Fotopris is to honor photojournalist students who are able to create strong photography in a hectic enviroment at a newspaper or at an agency.The winner is awarded a Canon 5D mark III. This year the jury was Lærke Posselt, Kent Klich and »

Mads Greve and Søren Pagter nominated for Fotogratula Prize

We, Mads Greve and Søren Pagter, are humble and proud to announce that we’ve been nominated for the Fotogratula Prize. Some weeks ago a group of students surprised us in class when reading out load their reason for nominating us for the new Danish photography prize called Fotogratula. The nomination »

Marie Hald’s story in the Huffington Post

It’s hard to keep track of all the times our students have their stories published and exhibited – but we try to post all the news, we get about our students and their projects. And surely some stories are published so often that we can’t follow the news flow. One »

Lasse Bak Mejlvang also in The Other Hundred

Lasse Bak Mejlvang‘s story The Baisikeli Brothers has also been selected for the comming edition of the book The Other Hundred. The story is about the bicycle culture and the refurbishing of old bycylces in Mozambique From the story The Baisikeli Brothers by Lasse Bak Mejlvang. Lasse Bak Mejlvang did »

Nikolai Linares selected for The Other Hundred

Nikolai Linares‘ story, The Last Fisherman, about the decreasing number of fishermen in Denmark has been selected for the next edition of the book The Other Hundred. From the story The Last Fisherman by Nikolai Linares. Nikolai Linares did the story while attending DMJX from where he graduated his BA »

Arko Datto’s Cybersex story published

Arko Datto‘s story Cybersex, which he made while he was studying at DMJX, is published in the October edition of the French NEON Magazine as part of an issue about Sexuality in the Cyber-age. Arko Datto has studied at both our Photo1 and Photo2 programmes and graduated at the end »

Mario Wezel’s magazine story in Information

Former international student Mario Wezel’s story “Sin began with Marlene” about apple production in Tyrol was published in yesterday’s edition of the daily Information.The pictures can also be seen online at FotoBloggen on Information’s website. The story about apple production in Tyrol published in Information. Mario Wezel did the story »

Andrea Gjestvang at DMJX

Today, the Norwegian photographer Andrea Gjestvang is visiting DMJX. Andrea Gjestvang lecturing at DMJX. Picture by Mads Greve. Andrea Gjestvang has been working with our 7th semester students all day and is right now giving a lecture for all our students of photojournalism. »

Matthew Busch featured in The Washington Post

Former international student Matthew Busch has his final diploma project from DMJX – What Coal left Behind – featured at the In Sight blog in The Washington Post. A miner shovels handfuls of coal into a bucket that he will later sell for cash. Picture By Matthew Busch. Matthew Busch »

DMJX presented at Vilnius Photo Circle Festival

This weekend, the fotofestival Vilnius Photo Circle was held in the capital of Lithuania. The Vilnius Photo Circle consists of two competetions and a festival with screenings and lectures. The two competetions are: the main competition “the Circle of Life” for professionals and the “Homework” competetion for young photographers below »

Launch of Voice magazine

Tomorrow, Friday at 13:30 our ten international photo1 students will launch their magazine called Voice.  International Photo1 in the computer room after finishing their magazine. Picture by Jesper Voldgaard. The Voice magazine is produced during a magazine workshop in the autumn 2014 at DMJX. The ten students have produced individual »

DMJX students at Eddie Adams workshop

Last week a group of present and former DMJX students were participating in the annual Eddie Adams workshop in upstate New York. DMJX-students at Eddie Adams workshop. From the left: Eric Shea (USA), Terje Abusdal (Norway), Demetrius Freeman (USA), Kirstine Killerich (Denmark), Rebecka Uhlin (Sweden), Mario Wezel (Germany) and Katie »

Mads Greve at Festival della Fotografica Etica

Faculty teacher Mads Greve will visit Festival della Fotografica Etica in Italy this Saturday to do portfolio reviews. Friday Mads’ agency Prospekt turns ten and at Teatro alle Vigne a screening of Prospekt works takes place among them Mads’ Blind Date. The festival has another DMJX connection as former student Lærke Posselt’s »

Two receptions on one day

Today, we’re having two receptions at DMJX. At 12.30 our Danish second terms students will launch their magazine with stories from the Danish island Lolland. The group of eigth students went together to the island called Lolland in the south of Denmark. Here they worked for one week making a »

Russian Master Class book launch

On Wednesday the 1st of October the book “Next Door” was launched at a reception in St. Peterburg, Russia. Mads Nissen speaking about the project at the reception in St. Petersburg. Picture by Anders Lange. A spread from the book “Next Door”. Picture by Anders Lange. “Next Door” is the »

Photocollective Skagerak

When the current 6th semester students were sent to internship they formed a photocollective called Skagerak to share their work during the internship. By now it has turned into a site with stories and a blog with photos from daily assigmnents. Check it out, it’s worth spending some time there. »

DMJX, MO, USA

“This week, Kayla, Demetrius, Matt and I spent the week at the Missouri Photo Workshop in Platte City, Missouri. The three of them were participating in the workshop, I was working on my personal project. At the end of the week, to celebrate completed projects and a week of hard »

Former Student Lærke Posselt Recieves Royal Award

This weekend former student Lærke Posselt recieved Stjernedrysprisen awarded by the Crownprince and Crownprincess of Denmark. The award show was broadcasted live at DR1. You can see the show here. Lærke is on at around 16:00 (in Danish). »

Laetitia Vancon in l’Oeil de la Photographie

Laetitia Vancon‘s story “my Home, My Prison” is published in the French photography magazine l’Oeil de la Photographie. From the story My Home, My Prison by Laetitia Vancon. Laetitia did the story as her final diploma project in the spring 2014. »