Eman Helal has won third prize at Egypt Press Photo Award

Just before New Year International student Eman Helal won third prize in the news picture section at the Egypt Press Photo Award. Eman won with this news picture, which she shot in April 2017. Relatives mourn at the funeral of victims killed in an explosion on April 9 ,2017 at »

Final screening day autumn 2017

Around 50 photojournalist students and teachers gathered today in the TV-auditorium at DMJX for the traditional final screening day. Photo I student Francis Wilson showing his final photo story at the final day at DMJX today. Photo: Farzad Soleimani. From 9am till 4pm the students showed each other the projects, »

Sina Niemeyer wins first prize at Perugia Social Photo Fest

Sina Niemeyer has been awarded first prize at the Perugia Social Fest, where the theme was The Skin I Live. Self portrait from Sina Niemeyer’s project “Für Mich”. Sina won in the category Therapeutic Photography with her project Für Mich, which she made as her Visual Project at Photo II »

DMJX at Vilnius Photo Circle

This weekend the festival Vilnius Photo Circle was held in the capital of Lithuania. Vilnius Photo Circle is organized by the Lithuanian Press Photographers’ Association. As a part of the festival 10 projects were selected to be exhibited at Vilnius Photo Circle – just like they were nominated for the »

Søren Pagter behind the book Watermusic

In September faculty teacher Søren Pagter covered the event Watermusic, which was one of the major events of the European Capital of Culture. Randers EgnsTeater, the organization behind Watermusic, also assigned layouter Martin Helgren and Søren Pagter to make a book with the pictures from the event. This 92 pages »

New Photobook

In the fall of last year and in the spring of this year photographer Mads Nissen and faculty teacher Mads Greve led a masterclass for young Nordic and Russian photographers in Sct. Petersburg and Copenhagen. The masterclass has resulted in the photobook Next To Me which is out now. The »

Mathias Bojesens BA-project in Information

The final BA-project “The Girl Behind The Black Scarf” by photojournalist Mathias Løvgreen Bojesen and journalist Emma Ellegaard is published online at Information. Screen shot from one of the videos in the project “The Girl Behind The Black Scarf”. Video by Mathias Løvgreen Bojesen. Mathias Løvgreen Bojesen graduated with this »

Janus Engels BA project in Poltiken

Janus Engel’s final BA-project “The National Immune System” from June this year is published in today’s edition of Politiken. The two front pages and four spreads look like this:   In June Janus Engel received the Scanpix Prize for his project “The National Immune System” – a book, which tells »

100 people visited Life Exposed

Saturday evening PixlArt Gallery screened all the still images from Life Exposed here in Aarhus. Mikkel Hørlyck’s story “The Neglected” was among the stories to be screened in Aarhus Saturday night. Photo: Tao Lytzen. During the evening screening of our anniversary exhibition was seen by around 100 people. “The Wild »

Life Exposed will be screened in Aarhus

Our anniversary exhibition Life Exposed will finally be shown in Aarhus. Illustration of how it will look like, when Life Exposed will be screened at Kulbroen in Aarhus this Saturday evening. Saturday night at 20:30 PixlArt will screen the still images from the Life Exposed exhibition at Kulbroen, Kalkværksvej 5G »

CPOY: Five DMJX winners in multimedia

The multimedia categories at CPOY have been judged and five DMJX-projects won in the three different categories. The five winning projects are: Gold to Rune Aarestrup Pedersen in Individual Multimedia Story or Essay:   Screen shot of Rune’s story “Changing Every Day”, which he made during his exchange study at »

Mathias Svold wins College Photographer of the Year

Mathias Svold has won the portfloio category at CPOY and has thereby been awarded College Photographer of the Year, which is the main prize of the competition. A group of girls are singing and dancing in the sea because the youth team of ‘Bogense IF’ have just won a football »

Heba Khamis wins second prize at PH museum grant

Heba Khamis has won the second prize at PH Museum Women Photographers’ Grant. Suzanne, 11 years old, experienced breast ironing couple of months before that image until her breast totally gone.Picture by Heba Khamis from the story “Banned Beauty”, which gave Heba a second prize at PH Museum Women Photographers’ »

CPOY third day: Mikkel Hørlyck wins bronze

Mikkel Hørlyck has won Bronze in the Documentary category on the third day of the CPOY judging. Andrei, 10, looks up without seeing. He was born blind. At the orphanage the most common diagnoses are autism, Down’s syndrome and epilepsy. Most of the inhabitants at the orphanage were born with »

CPOY third day: Prizes in two more categories

On the third day of CPOY two DMJX projects received prizes in two different categories. The DMJX winners are: Silver, Interpretive Project to Mathias Svold & Ulrik Hasemann for their project “The Lost Boys of Belgrade”:Picture from the series “The Lost Boys of Belgrade” by Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann. »

CPOY second day: Seven more winners

The second day of the CPOY judging started with four DMJX students winning in the Feature category. Later in the day DMJX-students also won in the International Picture Story and General News categories. The seven winners on the second day are: Gold, Feature to Simon Læssøe: A group of Rama »

CPOY: Four winners on the first day

Three DMJX students have won four prizes on the first day of the CPOY, where three categories have been judged. Gold, Spot News to Emil Hougaard: “Peace is worth nothing without justice” says Martin Livanze, a 23-year old inhabitant of the largest slum of Nairobi, Kibera. The opposition candidate of »

Rooted – new student magazine

Last Friday out international Photo I students launched their magazine “Rooted” at a reception at DMJX. Photo I student together with teacher Mathilde Bech in front of their magazine. Now the magazine is available online by clicking the icon below. The magazine is made by Jennifer Christine Du PuisTahmineh GodazgarFarzad »

Two student exhibitions at DMJX on Friday

Photo: Emma Line Sejersen. Pictures, pictures, pictures. No matter where you look our class rooms are right now filled with pictures and busy students. Our international Photo I students and our Danish third term students are working hard finishing two new student exhbitions at DMJX. The Photo I students discussing »

Second term students launch the magazine "Hobro"

For the past three weeks our Danish second term students have had a magazine workshop and today they’re ready to launch their magazine “Hobro” with stories from the town by that name. The magazine will be launched at a reception today at 1:30pm in the front hall of the school. »