Nikolai Linares wins nature competition

Nikolai Linares has won a competition with the theme Nature without man with this picture from the Wadi Rum Dessert in Jordan. The competition was launched by the international magazine Youth Time, Prague, Czech Republic. »

DSMJ at Copenhagen Photo Festival

Even though DSMJ doesn’t have it’s own student exhibition at the comming Copenhagen Photo Festival the school is represented at some of the exhibitions around the city: Mette Frandsen is showing her prize winning BA project Sin City at Bryghuset in Photo City. Mette Frandsen graduated last year and won »

Katie Currid in Eurocities Book

This picture by international student Katie Currid (US) has been selected to represent Aarhus in the Eurocities book. Aarhus is a part of a Eurocities network of more than 140 European cities. This network will publish a book with a picture from each city. Katie Currids picture is a part »

Master Class with Mads Nissen in Nepal

We have selected and announced the participants for the Master Class for Nepali photographers. Photojournalist Mads Nissen, Berlingske Media and a former student will run the workshop from the 12th of June. The selected photographers are: Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka, Kishor K Sharma, Narendra Shrestha, NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, Nirman Shrestha, Phurpu »

New York Photo Award for Lene Münch

Lene Münch, Germany, who studied at DSMJ last year have won the student category Photographic Book in this year’s New York Photo Awards. Lene Münch handed in her project about German fraternities – a project made while studying at DSMJ. »

Student magazine from Orø

Our Danish second term students went to the Danish Island Orø for one week during their magazine workshop and we’re proud to launch their magazine called Den bedre halvdel/The Better Half. The students behind the magazine are: Tine Sletting Jakobsen, Lars Just, Torkil Adsersen, Jesper Mortensen, Marcus Trappaud Bjørn and »

Forum ready for launch!

We are excited to share with you that our new forum is now online and ready to work. This forum is for members from all groups since 1992 and up till today. Visitors may visit and read every single forum and thread. But its only our members who will actually »

Scholarship for Peter Helles

Peter Helles who is currently working on his BA assignment has received a working scholarship from Danida. Together with journalist Mira Kellermann, he is going to Kenya to do a film with the working title: Susan and her magnificent Message Service. Each year Danida hands out 10 scholarships of D.kr. »

Stories from Nepal

Recently I wrote about our co-operation with Photo.Circle in Nepal and that our first project – a one month basic course in photojournalism – had been a succes. Now some of the pictures from the course are launched online – made by the 20 young Nepali photographers who attended the »

Student’s story published in 3F magazine

The trade union magazine Fagbladet 3F has bought and published a story by Danish student Camilla Rønde. During the magazine workshop on 2nd semester Camilla and her class mates went to the island of Bornholm to do individual stories and published them in an online student magazine, Furthest to the »

News from Down Under

Today I received great news from a former int. student, Andrew Mackinnon, who studied at DSMJ in the spring 2010. Andrew have won Student Photojournalist Story of the year in Australia & New Zealand with a online project he made while studying in Aarhus.The story has also been selected to »

101 men and women at ARoS

Almost five years ago Sofia Wraber and Nanna Kreutzmann made an extraordinary visual project during their final semester at DSMJ. The two photojournalists portrayed 101 men within a project period of four weeks. And it was not just 101 random men, it was one man representing each age from zero »

Magazine launch

Our nine international students from the programme The Language of Photojournalism have just finished a three week magazine workshop where each of them have made a story including pictures, text and layout. The entire magazine Europe’s New Challenges is now available online and Friday the 15th of April at 1pm »

Reportage exhibition at DSMJ

The Danish third term students have just finished a four week long reportage workshop with photographer Gregers Tycho from Jyllands-Posten. As it’s the tradition the students exhibit their reportage stories in the aula at DSMJ before applying for internships. We opened the exhibition this Friday and the following weeks the »

Søren Pagter at Göteborgs-Posten

Wednesday the 6th of April Søren Pagter was lecturing at Göteborgs-Posten. The topic was online publishing and 50 members of the editoral staff attended the meeting – both members of the photo department and staff from the news room. Göteborg-Posten is one of those rare newspapers which hasn’t started making »

Wes Rowe second in student POY – updated

Wes Rowe, international student who graduated from DSMJ last year have won second prize in student photographer of the year in San Fransisco Bay Area. Wes Rowe submitted a portfolio with images made while studying at DSMJ. The winning portfolio is available here. »

Søren Pagter behind huge portrait project

Can you make an exhibition with around 13,000 portraits? Yes, you can. Every evening 13,000 unique children portraits are projected on the Red Fall monument in Randers. Head of the dep. of photojournalism, Søren Pagter, is one of the makers of the project – Børn i centrum (kids in focus). »

Milestone 50 Members, 200+ projects

We are thrilled to announce that our site now has 50 active members and more than 200 projects online. Keep them comming! Before summer we’ll update the website with a great collection of links and a debate forum for the members. »

Aino Salmi and Søren Pagter in Photo Raw

The recent number (no. 13 – 2011) of the Finnish magazine Photo Raw focusses on the Finnish Press Photo of the Year 2010. In the magazine there’s an interview with Aino Salmi, international student who won first prize in the category Photo Essay. Søren Pagter, jury member at the Finnish »

Asbjørn Sand and Søren Pagter at Fyens Stiftstidende

A readers’ meeting at Fyens Stiftstidende in Odense this afternoon focussed on photojournalism. The newspaper had invited Peter Hove and Asbørn Sand – both prize winning photographers at this years Press Photo of the Year – to show their pictures and tell about their work. Asbjørn Sand is currently doing »