Scanpix Prize for Astrid Dalum

Today at the ceremony for the graduating photojournalists Astrid Dalum was awarded the Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA project. Astrid’s project Jeg er kvinde (I am woman) explores women and their relation to their bodies. “The portraits contains a vulnerability and it takes credibility and empathy to make the »

Ahmed Hayman wins at Egypt POY

Ahmed Hayman has today won first prize in the story category at the Egypt Press Photo Awards 2011 with a series of pictures that he made for his diploma project. The winning pictures can be seen at Ahmed’s facebook site. Ahmed Hayman has been studying at DSMJ for two semesters »

Amy Johansson nominated for Swedish POY

Amy Johansson, international student who graduated her Diploma project in December 2011, is nominated for the Swedish POY. The winners will be announced at the award ceremony in Malmö on the 16th March.   »

Stories in Piel de Foto

The recent edition of the Spanish magazine Piel de Foto have published three stories with connection to our school. – Nicolai Linares’ story Dreams of a New Cairo is shown over three spreads. Nicolai has finished his final workshops in 2011 and in 2012 he’s going to make his final »

Six students nominated for Danish POY

Yesterday, the jury of the Danish POY released the names of the nominated photographers from the Danish POY 2011. The list included six students from our school: Liv Høybye Jeppesen, currently doing her intern at Jyllands-Posten. Christian Klindt Sølbeck, who will graduate this January. Dennis Lehmann, currently doing his intern »

James Njuguna portrait online

The television portrait about James Njuguna is now available online on TV2’s website. The story starts appoximately 17,40 minutes in the news boradcast. »

Nina Weymann-Schulz in PROFIFOTO

Former international student Nina Weymann-Schulz, Germany, has a five spread story in the January/February edition of the German magazine PROFIFOTO. The published story consists of vertical pictures from Chinatown in New York and it was made as a Visual Project while Nina was studying at DSMJ in the spring 2011. »

James Njuguna in TV2 Østjylland tonight

James Njuguna Mwaura from Kenya who studied at both our international programmes in 2010 and 2011 will be portrayed in TV2 Østjylland tonight. James is now back in Kenya where he’s establishing a photo resource center to assist promising photographers and multimedia communicators in Kenya and the greater East African »

Nepal project presented in the magazine Udvikling

The recent edition of the Danish magazine Udviking brings an article about our Nepal co-operation project. Journalist Lene Winther writes about the master class for Nepali photographers and the magazine brings some examples of the stories made during the master class. The magazine is available as epaper here. Udvikling focusses »

Gorm Olesen exhibits at Fairbar

Today, Gorm Olesen , who is currently doing his internship at Jyllands-Posten, opens his exhibition “Hvor enkerne bor” (where the widows live) at Fairbar, Nørre Allé in Aarhus. The pictures are from the area “Lebanon” in the city Tirunannamalai in the south of India. Another part of the exhibition tells »

Nikolai Linares story in Ud & Se

Nikiolai Linares’ seventh semester project about the fisherman Kjeld Jørgen Andersen from Gileleje is published in the December edition of the magazine Ud & Se. The story can be seen at page 38 in magazine. The reportage story follows the 19-year young fisherman, who’s one of the last of his »

Reportage exhibition by third term students

Our Danish third term students open their reportage exhibition today at 2 pm in the front hall of the school. Come join us for a small reception before the weekend. Hare Krishna in Vanløse by Torkil Adsersen All the reportages are made during a reportage workshop with photojournalist Gregers Tycho »

Søren Pagter in the magazine Journalisten

The magazine Journalisten writes in the recent edition about the official portraits of the members of the Danish Parliament. In the article they’ve asked Søren Pagter to comment on the very stylistic portraits: Have too much Photoshop been used? How to the readers interpret the portraits? According to Søren Pagter »

Magazine release

Our Danish second semester students have just released the magazine called Uden for sæson (Out of Season). The magazine is the final product after a magazine workshop where the students have worked with individual stories from the holiday area Tisvilde in Denmark.  The eight students behind the stories and the »

Hanna Lenz story published in Samvirke

Former international student Hanna Lenz has a story published in the recent edition of the magazine Samvirke. On page no. 54 and three spreads ahead there’s a picture story about 97-year old Else Riper Engling. Hanna Lenz made the portrait story about Else Riper Engling during the magazine workshop in »

Release of five new online stories

Our international students have just finished their online workshop with Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Bombay Flying Club. The ten students have worked in groups of two persons and made stories within five different topics. The online stories are now available on the website In Casu. The five stories »

Patrick Brown visiting DSMJ

Tomorrow, Friday the 18th of November, the Australian photographer Patrick Brown, Panos Pictures will visit DSMJ. Patrick will give a lecture at 2 pm in the new TV-auditorium. The lecture is open for everybody, so if you’re in Aarhus please feel free to join us. You can see some of »

Guests from Nepal

In the following week we’ll have guests from photo.circle, Nepal visiting the school in Aarhus. NayanTara, Bhushan, Kishor and Prasiit came to Denmark this Tuesday and the purpose of their visit is to give them a thorough insight in teaching photojournalism. Therefore they’ll follow different workshops while they’re here and »

Linares wins again

On the final day at CPOY the judges selected the winners in the two most prestigious categories, Documentary and Portfolio. The winner of the portfolio categori is named College Photographer of the Year 2011. And again a student from DSMJ were among the winners: Nikolai Lineres won silver in the »