On 7th semester Lasse Bak Mejlvang did a project about the bicycle culture of Beira, a city in Mozambique. The story is about how bicycles play an important role in changing the lives and living conditions of the people of Beira. Now Lasse’s photos are exhibited at Copenhagen Photo Festival »
This week both our Danish and international final year students are playing a marketing game conducted by photography consultant Marc Prüst. This is a totally new kind of workshop at our school. The purpose is to prepare the students for the future and to teach them about the market mechanisms »
This Sunday the Danish daily, Jyllands-Posten, published Sofia Busk’s third term reportage about a witch doctor from Tanzania. Sofia made the story during a reportage workshop at school conducted by Peter Hove, staff photographer at Politiken. After the summer break Sofia will start her internship at Jyllands-Posten. »
This weekend the POYi award ceremony is held at Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, USA. Final year student Magnus Holm, who won College Photographer of the Year at CPOY, recieves his prize at the award ceremony tonight and have shown his work at a lecture today. Magnus Holm »
Tobias Selnæs Markussen who graduated in 2011 has been selected for the book The Other Hundred. Picture from Tobias Selnæs Markussens project A Difficult Lovestory. The Other Hundred is project of the Global Institute for Tomorrow – GIFT. The key idea of The Other Hundred is to focus make on »
In the past days the terrifying pictures from the killing in Woolwich, London have been shown and debated all over the world. Today, Søren Pagter, was interviewed in both Danish public radio and in national television about the ethics in showing this kind of pictures. Picture by: Mads Greve You »
The PDN Photo Annual 2013 winners were recently announced. Among them were Lærke Posselt, Marie Hald and Lasse Mejlvang. Lærke wins in the Photojournalism/Documentary category and Marie and Lasse win in the Student Work category. Lærke Posselt’s work here, Marie Hald’s work here, and Lasse Mejlvangs work here. »
Our international students have finished their magazine workshop and launch their magazine both online and at an exhibition in the front hall at the school. The exhibition opens with a small reception Friday the 3rd of May at 12.30. The ten students behind the magazine are: Andrew SchriverJasper BastianNatalie BeckerMassimo »
While being in Amsterdam to receive her World Press Photo prize Marie Hald won one more prize tonight. At the award ceremony for the Kravling student prizes Marie Hald was announced the winner of the Fotokravling. Marie Hald won with her 7th semester project about Bonnie. Read more at the »
This weekend World Press Photo celebrates this year’s winners at the annual award days in Amsterdam. Marie Hald next to her prize winning portrait at Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. Today, final year student Marie Hald will show her full story about Bonnie and tonight she’ll receive her second prize in »
The Danish second term students have finished their magazine workshop and have launched their magazine called Hundestederne. The magazine consists of eight individual stories from the Danish town called Hundested. The students who have made the magazine are: David Leth Williams Paw Wegner Gissel Mie Hee Christensen Kasper Ray Eriksen »
Each year the FotoKravling award is given to a student for one significant photojournalism story done either at the school or during internship. This year the jury has nominated five students for the FotoKravling Award. All five stories were made at the school. The nominated are: Cathrine Ertmann – for »
This week 12 young, talented photographers from North West Russia are participating in a master class workshop conducted by Mads Nissen, photojournalist at Berlingske and Søren Pagter, head of the department of photojournalism at DMJX. The purpose of the workshop is to further develop the visual and storytelling skills of »
Final year student Andreas Beck has been in DR2, one of the public television stations to talk about his project from South Sudan. The interview is found 17:40 minutes in the programme. Andreas Bech also won bronze in CPOY 2012 with his series of portraits from South Sudan. »
At an award cermony today the newpaper Information launched the winners of Information’s Fotopris which honours students who have done great work during their internship. The winner was Lasse Bak Mejlvang, who did his internship at MetroXpress. Lasse won with three very different series of pictures. One story about the »
Today, our third term students finished their reportage workshop by exhibiting their stories in the aula at the school. Seven stories from totally different like Denmark, Spain, Gaza, Tanzania and Svalbard. Picture by Søren Pagter. The students behind the exhibiting are: Sofia Busk Charlotte Nørregaard Simone Pedersen Jonas Olufson Jonas »
In the recent edition of the trade magazine Journalisten Cathrine Ertmann and Marie Hald write about how photojournalism is valued and paid in Danish newspapers. The background for the commenting article is Marie Hald’s prize winning story about Bonnie. Marie Hald sold the story for D.kr. 4000 to a Danish »
This week, photographer Jon Lowenstein from Noor Agency is teaching our final year students in order to prepare them for their final BA-projects. Jon Lowenstein portrayed by Søren Pagter in front of one of his polaroid pictures in medium format from the Southside, Chicago project. Thursday, Jon Lowenstein lectured for »
The Danish POY exhibition has started it’s tour around Denmark. First stop is Aarhus where the mayor opened the exhibition at the arts museum ArOS, yesterday. In his opening speech the mayor, Jacob Bundsgaard, praised DMJX and especially it’s photojournalism students for making world class photojournalism. He honoured the five »
After the announcement of Marie Hald’s winning picture, yesterday, the news is in all the media today. Marie Hald receiving the applause from her fellow colleagues. Picture by Søren Pagter. Every newspaper brings the picture of the year and the story about a student winning this title. In Poltiken all »
