Nora Klein finished her final Photo II project in 2013 with a project about depression. Back at her home institution in Hannover, she continued the project in 2014 and did her degree about the same subject. Cover of Nora Klein’s book Mal gut, mehr schlecht. Now, the project has been »
Giulia Mangione‘s book The Happy Show is in the shortlist for the Kassel Dummy Award, which is right now at Istanbul Photobook Festival. Picture from Giulia Mangione’s project The Happy Show. Giulia started her project about the happy Danes as her final Photo Story during Photo I in the spring »
DMJX students Heba Khamis (Egypt) and Rebecka Uhlin (Sweden) are among the 12 young photographers, who are selected for this year’s Joop Swart Masterclass organized by World Press Photo. Heba Khamis’ selected port folio consisted of her story “Banned Beauty”, which will also be a part of our 25 years’ »
Mads Greve and Søren Pagter are on a study trip visiting three different schools in the US this week. Søren Pagter giving a morning lecture for the photojournalist students at Missouri University. Photo by Mads Greve. First stop is Missouri University, where Greve and Pagter gave a lecture about the »
There has been a small change in the date for our 25 years’ anniversary. Both the official opening of the anniversary exhibition and the party will be held on Friday the 2nd of June The 25 years’ anniversary exhibition will open at 4 pm on Friday the 2nd of June. »
Mads Claus Rasmussen‘s first year project about the war veteran Torsten Elkjær Andersen, who suffers from PTSD is published at DR online today. Portrait of the 45-year old war veteran Torsten Elkjær Andersen, who is fighting every day to get his PTSD acknowledged. Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen. The national »
Our international Photo 1 stduents have just received the printed copies of their magazine “Heimat”. The front cover of Photo 1 students magazine Heimat. Click to watch what’s inside. Today, at 2pm we’re celebrating the launch of the magazine with a small reception in the front hall of DMJX. The »
Final year student Ulrik Hasemann was awarded Informations Fotopris yesterday. The Jungle in Calais. One of the pictures from Ulrik Hasemann’s prize winning portfolio. Photo by: Ulrik Hasemann. Ulrik Hasemann has been interning at Information and the jury writes among other things in their statement for the prize: Ulrik Hasemann »
In the past three days DMJX faculty teacher, Mads Greve and photographer at Politiken, Mads Nissen have worked with a group of 16 Nordic and Russian photographers at the master class “Next to Me”. Evgeny Makarov (Russia), Kyrre Lien (Norway) and Yaroslava Tarasova (Russia) are editing a story about how »
We’re happy to announce that we have selected the video documentaries, which will be screened at the 25 years’ anniversary exhibition in June this year. The five chosen short documentaries are: Crazy about foodby Nanna Navntoft, Sille Veilmark and Benjamin Nørskov. The Egostripper by Katrine Marie Kragh and Anders Rye »
Last week our final year students ended the teaching preparing them for their final BA/Diploma projects – and this week they have all left to do their stories. While cleaning up in their class room we found all their name signs, which they had decorated while having classes. We’re sharing »
DMJX-students trying out Olympus equipment. Photo by Søren Pagter. Last week Olympus representatives visited the school to present the brands new student grant and a selection of Olympus equipment. In the future DMJX students can apply for the Rising Talent grant twice a year. Based on the applications Olympus will »
Second term students, Laura Bisgaard Krogh and Maria Albrechtsen Mortensen produced a short promotion interview with Alixandra Fazzina last week. Click the image to watch the video interview with Alixandra Fazzina. Produced by Laura Bisgaard Krogh and Maria Albrechtsen Mortensen. Alixandra Fazzina from Noor Images was visiting DMJX to teach »
Final year students Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann have just finished a project about the 1000 refugees, who are stuck and live in the streets of Belgrade. Now the project is published online at the Danish newspaper Information. You can also see the full project at the two students original »
Espen Rasmussen lecturing at DMJX. Photo by Fabian Fiechter. The Norwegian photographer and picture editor Espen Rasmussen visited DMJX yesterday and gave a lecture for all our photojournalist students. During the inspiring lecture Espen Rasmussen talked about his work as picture editor at the Norwegian newpaper VG. He gave the »
Betina Garcia has won third prize at the Hearst Journalism Competition in the Multimedia category for her story “Los Rancheros” about Hispanics in the USA. Picture from Betina Garcia’s multimedia story “Los Rancheros”, which consists of both stills, video and sound. Photo by Betina Garcia. Betina Garcia did the story »
Having class with the current 2. semester equals having cake. Everyday (not kidding) they are bringing cake. Today Laura brought a Danish flag cake her sister made. It tasted as good as it looked. »
This weekend our 3. semester students are visiting Hochschule Hannover in Germany to take part in a cooperation with the German school and the Speos/Magnum school in Paris. Classes from the three schools are meeting to start working on the theme Youth in Europe. During the stay in Hannover the »
The list of 187 nominees for World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass has been announced today. Nine former DMJX-students are on the short list with photographers from 68 differents countries. The DMJX-nominees are: Roger Anis, Egypt Dario Bosio, Italy Matthew Busch, USA Sagar Chetri, Nepal Marie Hald, Denmark Heba Khamis, »
Mark these dates in your calenders. The 1st of June this year we’ll open our 25 years anniversary exhibition at the Copenhagen Photo Festival. The anniversary exhibition will consist of five still picture projects and five video documentaries. All of it will be arranged in a container village at the »
