Simon Skipper presented on Skip a Heartbeat

Simon Skipper is interviewed and presented for the fashion blog Skip a Heartbeat. The blog has started a new category on their website called career talk, where they interview different artists. Simon Skipper is the first to be presented in this category on the webiste. Simon Skipper is currently doing »

Lærke Posselt receives royal acknowledgement

This morning it was announced that Lærke Posselt is one out of two young Danish artists to receive HM crown prince Frederik and princess Mary’s talent prize called “Stjernedrysprisen” (the Stardust Prize). The prize is handed out each year to acknowledge young emerging talents among Danish artists. From the story »

Camille Lepage book funds new award

Photojournalist Camille Lepage was tragically killed on the 13th of May this year while reporting from the Central African Republic in May this year. At this year’s Visa pour l’Image her agencies, Polaris and Hans Lucas released a book with some of the pictures, Camille made while covering the conflict »

Two "old" DMJX projects published again

Lærke Posselt is going to exhibit her project Beautiful Child at the Festival della Fotografia Etica in Lodi, Italy. Lærke did the story at her 7th semester project in 2011. Lærke Posselt graduated in 2013. From the project Beautiful Child by Lærke Posselt. Mette Frandsens project Sin City is published »

Polaroid group picture

A few weeks ago, Emanuele Camerini was testing his newly bought used Polaroid camera and Impossible Project film before starting his Visual Project. He made this group picture at an Indian restaurant, where the Danish 8th term students and the photo2 students had a welcome dinner together with Kent Klich »

DMJX students at Visa pour l’Image

The annual Visa pour L’image ended today and two international DMJX-students and their projects were a part of the festival. From the story “My Home, My Prison”. Picture by Laetitia Vancon. Laetitia Vancon was selected as a “Coup de Coeur” at Visa pour l’image by Association Nationale des Iconographes. Laetitia »

Felix von der Osten shortlisted for Nordic Book Dummy Award

International student Felix Von der Osten is shortlisted in the Nordic Book Dummy Awards with his project “Every Three Seconds” about the pig industry in Denmark. Felix did the story as his final photo story when he graduated our photo1 programme this spring. Front cover of the book Every Three »

Kishor Sharma won with "Living in the Mist"

Kishor Sharma has been awarded in the 14th General Photography Festival “Photo City Sagamihara”. Kishor has won the Grand Prix Asian prize, which includes 200,000 Yen, a trophy and certificates the winning professional photographer from Asia to exhibit his/her work of documentary photos. Kishor will receive the prize in Japan »

Mads Greve at Visa pour l’Image

This week, staff teacher Mads Greve is participating in the annual photo festival Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan, France. Mads Greve is in Perpignan to conduct a workshop for a group of Danish photographers and to establish future contacts for DMJX. Mads Greve’s “selfie” from Perpignan – where he breaks »

Casper Balslev gave welcoming lecture

Yesterday afternoon, photojournalist Casper Balslev gave this semester’s welcoming lecture to all our students. Casper Balslev talking about his Hollywood project in the TV-auditorium, yesterday. Around 50 students from all photo semesters gathered yesterday in the TV-auditorium to greet each other and to listen to this semester’s opening lecture by »

DMJX participates in the Global Family Project

The photojournalist students at DMJX have been invited to participate in a global project arranged and sponsored by Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School and The Alexia Foundation. More than 40 photojournalistic schools from all over the world participate in the projects, which pourpose it is to make a powerful statement »

Sexting project at the Finnish Museum of Photography

Back in 2010, photojournalism student Sisse Stroyer started a project called Sexting during her 8th semester at DMJX. Tonight, she’s opening an exhibiting of the project at the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki. Picture form the Sexting project. Picture form the Sexting project. Sexting is a project, where Sisse »

Sailendra Kharel has won first prize at Nepal’s POY

During the summer break it was announced, that Sailendra Kharel won first prize in the category “Daily Life Single” at Nepal’s annual photojournalism contest. Relatives mourns after a village fire in Holiya, Banke district in Nepal. Sailendra Kharel’s prize winning picture. You can see the some of the winning images »

Laetitia Vancon selected for the Blumm Prize

Laetitia Vancon, former international Frensh student, is among the only five photographers selected for the Blumm Prize. Noja at the hospital – from the story “My Home, My Prison”. Picture by Laetitia Vancon. Laetitia is participating with her story “My Home, My Prison”, which she made as her final diploma »

Mario Wezel among the Ian Perry winners

Mario Wezel, former internattional student from Germany, has received the commended award at the Ian Perry Scholarship. From the story about Emmy, who suffers from Down’s Syndrome. Picture by Mario Wezel. Mario won with his story “One in eight hundred”, which he made as his final diploma project in the »

Magnus Holm at National Geographic

When DMJX student Magnus Holm won first prize in College Photographer of the Year (CPOY) he recieved an internship at National Geographic. During the internship Magnus did a project about a small Inuit settlement north of the Artic Circle. Read about the internship and the project here. »

Six DMJX students selected for the Eddie Adams Workshop

The 27th Eddie Adams Workshop will be held in October 2014 and the only 100 students selected for the four-day intense workshop were announced last week. The list of participants is not on the workshop’s website, but as far as I know four out of the 100 students come from »

Lasse Mejlvang wins the Scanpix Prize

At the dimission ceremony today, Lasse Mejlvang received the Scanpix Prize for the best photojournalistic BA-project. Lasse Mejlvang was not able to be at the award Ceremony, so he sent a video message instead. Picture by Mads Greve. Lasse Mejlvang received the prize for his project “A place they call »

DMJX at the Lumix Festival

This weekend the forth Lumix Festival was held in Hannover. A lot of former, present and even comming DMJX students were present at the festival as exhibitors, guests and active in arranging the festival. 38 of the around 50 DMJX-stduents and teachers gathered for a group picture at the Expo »

Simon Skipper exhibiting at Gallery T

Third term student Simon Skipper opened his exhibition “Malmøcitater” this Saturday. Picture from the exhibition by Simon Skipper and Mathias Lind. The exhibition is an interpretation of the town Malmø – made through manipulated cityscapes. It can be seen at Gallery T, Jægersgårdsgade 58 in Aarhus. Simon Skipper has made »