The CPOY succes continues

It’s amazing. One gold, one silver and one award of excellence on the third day of CPOY. Ahmed Hayman, international student from Egypt, wins gold in the category Domestic Picture Story with a series about the revolution in Egypt. The revolution started two days after Ahmeds arrival in Denmark in »

One more CPOY winner

I was just informed that one more student have won award of excellence on the second day of CPOY: Jeppe Bøje from 8th semester won in the category Illustration with a picture called grown up. And Asbjørn Sand reminded me that he finished his internship this summer and is back »

Asbjørn Sand wins at CPOY

Asbjørn Sand has won with three different pictures on the second day at CPOY. Asbjørn Sand, who is currently doing his internship at Fyens Stiftstidende won award of excellence in: The feature category with a picture from the unofficial national championship for drag queens. The pictorial category with a picture »

Four winners on first day of CPOY

The prestigious competition Coillege Photographer of the Year 2011 (CPOY) bagan their judging yesterday in Columbia, Missouri and four students from our school were among the winners on the first day: Sports Action. Gold and Award of excellence to Michael Hansen for two different boxing images. Michael Hansen has just »

Two students win at best music picture of the year

Nikolai Linares Larsen wins best music picture of the year 2011 with a portrait of the Danish singer Søren Huss – the portrait was also the best music portrait of the year. Nikolai is right now at his 8th semester. Camilla Rønde wins in the category best music feature with »

Exhibition and book launch – in Nepal

If you happen to be in Kathmandu, Nepal on Friday the 4th of November, i’ll encourage you to take part in the opening of the exhibition The Constant Change and the launch of the book by the same name. The exhibition will open at 4 pm at Nepal Art Council, »

Magazine launch

Our international students studying at the course The Language of Photojournalism have just finished a magazine after a four week magazine workshop. The ten international photographers have worked with individual stories under the subject: Challenges of Europe. They have done all the work from scratch: research, photographing, writing, editing and »

Fotografisk salon, Aarhus

A group of people in Aarhus have organized a club for students of photography and others who’re interested in the broad specture of photography. The club is called Fotografisk Salon, Aarhus. The purpose of the club is to arrange lectures that can inspire and create a debate, for instance about »

Welcome with a lecture by Andrei Polikanov

Now, all students of photojournalism are back at school. This last Thursday we had our traditionel welcomming reception for all photo students. We had the chance to say hello to everybody and the students could meet across the different semesters. We also had an inspiring lecture about contemporary Russian photography »

Søren Pagter back in Nepal

Editing at photo.circle This week Søren Pagter will be at photo.circle in Kathmandu, Nepal to conduct a workshop together with photojournalist Mads Nissen. The workshop is the final part of a master class for 12 Nepali photographers. The 12 photogrpahers have been working for two months with the theme evolution »

New feature: Link collection

We’re proud to announce that we have a new feature on Danish Photojournalism: a link collection where the links are sorted in different categories and each link has a short description. This makes it easy to navigate between the many links. As a member you can also suggest a link »

Canon Prize to Nina Weymann-Schulz

Nina Weymann-Schulz (Germany) who finished our Advanced Visual Story Telling this spring has won the Canon ProfiFoto Award in Germany. Nina won with her visual project from Chinatown in New York – a project that she made here at DSMJ. The award is a 2000 € scholarship and a publication »

A great selection of online stories

On the new website In Casu we have made a collection of online stories told by students at DSMJ. Each semester we run two multimedia workshops together with Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Bombay Flying Club. On these workshop our international and Danish students produce a lot of high »

Søren Pagter on national television

On Monday the 1st of August Søren Pagter will be giving photographic advice in the television programme Aftenshowet on DR1, national television. A viewer has written to the show to ask for advice in order to become better at making pictures. In the programme Søren Pagter will give some basic »

Lasse Bak Mejlvang giving photographic advice on national TV

On Go’ Morgen Danmark, a morning talkshow on the national Danish TV2 last week, Lasse Bak Mejlvang gave advice on how to shoot photos when on vacation.  To prove his points Lasse used a small digital camera and showed photos shot at Roskilde Festival. Check out the show here. »

DSMJ students selected for Eddie Adams workshop

Six current and former students have been selected to participate in the Eddie Adams Workshop October 2011. The students are: – Sonja Och, Germany, who graduated our Advanced Visual Story Telling Programme this summer. – Eve Edelheit, US, who studied as an exchange student at our Language of Photojournalism programme »

Galbiati and British Journal of Photography

At the website of British Journal of Photography Sara Galbiati shows her BA project, Lucha Libre. You will also find an interview with Sara, where she talks about the project and about the school. Sara did her project in the spring of 2010 and it won a first prize at »

Scanpix prize for Peter Helles

At the ceremony for the graduating photojournalists and journalists today Peter Helles was awarded the Scanpix Prize for the best photojournalism BA. Peter received the award for his project Supernormal, where he uses statistics to find the most average within different fields, and in the photos shows the average Danes. »

Group sketch

It’s tradition to make a group picture to remember your fellow students by – and our international students from The Language of Photojournalism have made one group image every time they’ve had a new teacher or guest lecturer. Then today I saw a new version of the group image – »

Farewell reception for Photo 2 students

Today we had to say goodbye to our ten international students who have been studying at Advanced Visual Story Telling. Most of the students have been with us for a whole year, since they have also participated in the Language of Photojournalism programme. All students grauduated their exams yesterday and »