High level among applicants

These weeks we’re assessing the applicants for both the Danish BA-education and for the two international programmes. And once again we have had a record high number of highly qualified candidates. 273 candidates enrolled for the admission test for the Danish BA-education. 177 of them fulfilled the first one-week test »

Meeting the minister for development cooperation

Yesterday, Søren Pagter met with the minister for development cooperation, Christian Friis Bach, to tell about the cooperation with photo.circle in Nepal. The meeting was a part of the ministers visit in Aarhus where he was introduced to different developing projects around the world. Søren Pagter talked about the many »

BIG prints and magazine launch

Today two groups of students exhibited their work in the aula at DMJX: The eight Danish students from third semester exhibit pictures and stories from their reportage workshop. And the prints are big and really catches the eyes of everybody passing by in the aula. The ten international students have »

Five students exhibit at the Lumix Festival

Today, the Lumix Festival released the projects that will be shown at the festival this year: 60 printed stories and 22 mulitmedia stories. Among the names were five students and student projects from DMJX: Sara Galbiati, who graduated in 2010, will exhibit her final BA project Lucha Libre about Mexican »

Winners at the Kravling award

Two students of photojournalism won at the Kravling award ceremony yesterday. Tobias Selnæs Markussen won the prize for the best photojournalistic student project with his story Autopia. Autopia tells about the car culture in the USA and is Tobias’ final BA-project from 2011. Cathrine Ertmann won together with a group »

Amy Johansson wins second prize at Swedish POY

At the Swedish POY 2012 award cermony today in Malmö Amy Johansson won a second prize in the multimedia category. Amy won with the story 88 1/2 about the american filmmaker Jack O’Connell – a story she made as her final Diploma Project at the school in 2011. »

School exhibition at Copenhagen Photo Festival

 Would you like to exhibit your work at the Copenhagen Photo Festival in June 2012 – and thereby promote our photojournalism education? We have been offered space at the photo festival and we will use it to show some of the most interesting work made at the Danish School of »

Astrid Dalum BA project in Politiken

Sunday the 4th of March Politiken publshed a two pages layout showing Astrid Dalums BA-project called I’m a Woman. The story is also available online at politiken.dk. »

Two first prizes at Danish POY

At the award ceremony for the Danish POY at The National Library in Copenhagen today three students were awarded a first prize and additional three students won honorable second prizes. Tobias Nørgaard Pedersen won first prize in the category Reportage, Denmark for a story about the PlayStation Proletariat, a group »

Three students nominated for Foto-Kravling

Louise Leth-Espensen, Nikolai Linares and Tobias Selnæs Markussen have been nominated for this year’s Kravling Prize in photojournalism. Louise has been nominated for her project An Unthinkable Love about the relationship between two men. Nikolai has been nominated for his personal project about becoming a father called When You’re Having »

Søren Pagter in TV2

Tomorrow, Friday the 22nd of February the TV2 programme Go’ Aften Østjylland will broadcast an interview with Søren Pagter. The interview will focus on how to educate photojournalists and the succes of Danish photojournalism. The background for the interview is the anniversery of the Danish Press Photographers’ Association and the »

Morten Germund in Berlingske TV

Berlingske online TV shows an almost four minutes long interview with Morten Germund, who recently won second prize in the category Newspaper Photographer of the Year in POYI. Morten Germund did his internship at Berlingske Media and won at POYI with a portfolio from his time at the newspaper. Right »

More POYi. This time Linares.

Again one of our students are among the final contesters in POYi. Last night Nikolai Linares was awarded Award Of Exellence in Sport Picture Story for the story “The Road to Defeat” about the icehockey team Rødovre Mighty Bulls. »

Lærke Posselt and Søren Pagter in national radio

Tomorrow, Friday the 17th, the Danish national radio broadcasts a one hour programme about photojournalism. The programme Mennesker og Medier will focus on the 100 year anniversery of the Danish Press Photographers Union, the ongoing debate about credibiity in photojournalism and on the prize winning Danish photojournalists. Lærke Posselt will »

Second best in the world

With this headline the website from the Danish School of Media and Journalism tells about Morten Germunds amazing second prize in the category Newspaper Photographer of the year in POYI. And about Lærke Posselt’s two first prizes in WPP and CPOY. Read it here. »

Lærke Posselt in national television

Lærke Posselt, who won two first prizes at both WPP and POYI, will be in national television tomorrow. First she’ll be interviewed in the morning programme Go’ Morgen Danmark on TV2. This programme starts at 6:30 am and will be repeated during the morning. The interview is also available online. »

Morten Germund wins at POYI

Morten Gemrund, who has just returned to 7th semester after his internship at Belingske, has won second prize in the category Newspaper Photographer of the Year in POYI. Morten Germund wins with a portfolio of pictures made during his internship – Amazing. From the story Shadow City, Mumbai, which is »

Lærke Posselt wins again – in POYI

What a day for Lærke Posselt. First she won first prize in World Press Photo and tonight she has won first prize again. This time in the singles portrait category at POYI. The news is not online at POYI website yet, but the judging is open and can be followed »

Lærke Posselt wins at World Press Photo

It’s just been announced that Lærke Posselt, Danish student at her final semester, have won first prize in the portrait category at the World Press Photo 2012. Lærke Posselt wins with a portrait of the 27-year-old Iranian-born actress Mellica Mehraban who grew up in Denmark, but debuted as an actor »

Nikolai Linares nominated for Student Focus competition

Nikolai Linares, currently working on his final BA project, is nominated for the Student Focus competition launched by the World Photography Organisation. Each year the World Photography Organisation invites hundreds of universities and schools of photography around the world to participate in the Student Focus competition. Each institution selects one »