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Friday, April 11, the annual DMJX Festival was held and during the whole day, photojournalism and journalism students could choose between a variety of more than 20 talks, lectures and events. »

Our nine Photo 1 students have concluded their magazine workshop with the production of a 136 pages magazine. The magazine was presented Friday, April 11 with an exhibition and reception as part of the annual DMJX Festival. The students have made their individual stories and designed the magazine during a »

Rikke Kjær Kjeldsen and Liv Møller Kastrup‘s BA-project “Do You See What I See” is exhibited at Dokk1 in Aarhus until Thursday, April 24, 2025. “Do You See What I See” portrays the moods or feelings of 11 different people while they were in the grip of psychosis. Rikke Kjær »

Book dummies by Lisa-Marie Gruber and Nora Börding are among the 50 photo books selected for the Dummy Award 2025. Both projects started during the two photographers’ studies at DMJX in the fall 2023. 395 books from 48 countries were submitted for the 2025 Dummy Award. The Dummy Award 2025 shortlist is going »

Maria Høy Hansen is one of the four Nordic photographers selected for the FUTURES Nordic Talents 2025 programme that is organized by the Copenhagen Photo Festival. The four FUTURES talents have been chosen from 83 submissions by Copenhagen Photo Festival’s exhibition committee through the festival’s annual open call. As part »

Rhiannon Johnston and Katja Hasenöhrl‘s video documentary “Home in the Heather” has been named finalist in the Daily Life category at POYi – Picture of the Year international. “Home in the Heather” has been named one of two finalists in the Daily Life Video Documentary Category at the 82nd POYi »

11 DMJX students were nominated for the 2024 Danish Picture of the Year. The winners in the various categories were announced at the award ceremony at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen this Friday, March 7, 2025. The nominated DMJX students won four first prizes and five second prizes. Winners »

Three DMJX projects were selected to be exhibited as part of the Voices Festival in Zagreb, February 27 to March 1, 2025. The photographers and DMJX alumni, Maria Høy Hansen, Louise Herrche Seerup and Christian Falck Wolff were invited to the festival to talk about their work and represent DMJX. »

To finalize their first spring 2025 six-weeks workshop, the Danish second term and the international Photo 1 students opened a mutual exhibition at DMJX Friday, february 28, 2025. The Danish second term and the international Photo 1 students concluded their first workshop of this spring term with the opening of »

On the day of the German election, Sunday February 23, 2025, the fourth term students headed for Hamburg on a two-days’ study trip to Hamburg together with Søren Pagter. »

Emilie Toldam Futtrup‘s BA-project, in which she collaborated with 25-year old Frederikke in telling about Frederikke’s life as a young women diagnosed with schizophrenia, was published on print and online in Jyllands-Posten this Sunday, February 23. »

This past week, interested applicants for all DMJX educations could meet students and teachers at the campuses in Aarhus and Copenhagen. Tuesday, February 18, 2025, DMJX held an open school event at the campus in Copenhagen and two days later, Thursday, February 20, the campus in Aarhus was open for »

Pressefotografforbundet (The Danish Press Photographers’ association) has announced the six single images that are nominated to become the 2024 Best Press Photograph in Denmark. Two of the nominated photographers are DMJX-students Signe Lægsgaard and Martin Thomas Ford. Both nominated pictures have been made during the students’ internships.Signe Lægsgaard is currently »

Liv Latricia Habel‘s personal project “Echoes of Home” is part of the annual Spring Exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. “Through the documentation of physical spaces, “Echoes of Home” explore the diversity among the African diaspora in Denmark. As black individuals in a white society, we verify our presence a »

While attending Foto festival Manzana 1 in Bolivia this November 2024, Søren Pagter was interviewed for Slovenian radio and television. The radio interview in English is now online at Val 202 by RTV Slovenia »

The 32 photojournalism students of the spring 2025 term met Monday, January 27 for a full day of Danish “hygge” and two welcome lectures by Meli Petersson Ellafi and Tobias Nicolai. The welcome for all DMJX photojournalists started in the morning, Monday, January 27 with a mutual breakfast, where the »

Thursday, January 23 the graduation ceremony for Danish DMJX photojournalists and journalists was held at the campus in Aarhus. Emilie Toldam Futtrup received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA-project. Images from the graduation ceremony: »

World Photography Organisation has announced the only ten students worldwide who are shortlisted for the 2025 Student Competition. Fourth term DMJX student Peter Maunsbach is on the list. Peter is nominated for his ongoing project Forever to Go that he started as his First Year Project during his second term »

Friday, Januar 18, Søren Pagter attended a live debate in News & Co at the Danish broadcast television station TV2. »

The nominees for the Danish Picture of the Year 2024 have been announced. Among the total of 35 nominees are 11 DMJX students. Almost one third of the nominees at this year’s Danish Picture of the Year are DMJX students. The 11 DMJX nominees are: Cecilie Enghardt Rolvung, currently interning »