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Friday the 17th of December, international students and Danish students from third and seventh term gathered for a final screening day to end the fall 2021 semester. »

This past week, Mads Greve has conducted a portrait workshop for 12 Egyptian photographers in Cairo. The portrait workshop is the second in a series of four workshops organized by The Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Initiative (DEDI) and DMJX Photojournalism. The third workshop will be held by Gitte Luk in January. The »

Benjamin Nørskov and his “EPA Sweden” project continue the exhibition tour. “EPA Sweden” is currently exhibited at Hälsinglands Museum in Sweden and Benjamin has been a part of the Nordic Light Festival in Norway, where he gave portfolio reviews and exhibited his project. »

Andreas Haubjerg‘s BA-project “A Real Man” is currently exhibited at the Gender Museum Denmark in Aarhus. Andreas Haubjerg won the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA-project with “A Real Man”. He has also received the PX3 Prix de la Photograhie in the Portraiture/personality category for this portrait series. »

A large group of Danish and international students participated in the bi-annual press photographers’ conference held in Nyborg, Denmark on Monday the 22nd and Tuesday the 23rd of November. At the conference there were lectures by the following photographers:Jonas Bendiksen, MagnumMarie Hald Anders Albjerg, TV 2Benjamin NørskovHeba Khamis Kyndell Harkness »

Friday the 19th November, Søren Pagter participated in an online panel debate at Photo Vogue Festival. The debate focussed on diversity in photography. The online debate was called “Echoes: A conversation on the photography landscape and the importance of diversity in the global market”. The panelists were: Aida Muluneh, photographer »

At a reception at DMJX, Friday the 19th of November, our Photo I students launched a magazine, where they have worked with individual stories under the topic “new beginnings”. The ten photojournalists behind the magazine are:Elena Fiebig (Germany)Aymen Mohamed (Sudan)Aku Ratsula (Finland)Cleo Amissah (England)Stáňa Benešová (Czech Republic)Leslie Ostronic (US)Conor Courtney »

This week, Søren Pagter is conducting the first of a series of four workshops for 12 Egyptian photographers in Cairo. The Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Initiative (DEDI) and DMJX Photojournalism will run a series of four workshops at DEDI in Zamalek, Cairo. During the first workshop, Søren Pagter lectured about genres, story »

Friday the 5th of November, our third term students opened an exhibition in the new gallery at the campus in Aarhus. The students have made the reportage stories during a four-weeks workshop at DMJX. They have had around two and a half weeks in the field. Back at DMJX, they »

Each year, Fotografisk Center creates an exhibition that highlights young Danish photography. This year, first term student Liv Latrica Habel has been selected as one of the six young artists to be exhibited at the gallery. Liv Latricia’s project “Diasporan Daughters” compiles a series of staged self-portraits and text excerpts. »

Maria Albrectsen Mortensen has won gold in the Multimedia, Documentary Short category at the 76th College Photographer of the Year. Mathias Eis Schultz and Mads Frost has won Award of Excelllence in the same category. »

Valdemar Stroe Ren has won the main Portfolio Category at the 76th College Photographer of the Year (CPOY). With the prize comes the title as College Photographer of the Year 2021 and an internship at National Geographic. Valdemar won the prize based on a portfolio of 33 images. The portfolio »

Nine different DMJX students have won ten prizes in the still picture categories at the 76th College Photographer of the Year that was concluded this Friday the 29th of October. In one category, International Picture Story, four out of the five winners were DMJX students. The winners are: Team Picture »

Anas Kamal has received a second prize at The Andrei Stenin International Photo Contest for his portrait of Hassiba Alnajib and her daughter. Anas Kamal made the story “Hassiba” in 2020 as his final project during a series of DMJX workshops in Cairo. The whole series was exhibited at Cairo »

We’re happy to announce the ten students, who will join our Photo I programme in the spring 2022: Teresa Menka (Ghana)Sini Lukka (Finland)Rachel Ellis (USA)Kim Christin Zeidler (Germany)Ralitsa Belcheva (Bulgaria)Sandipa Malakar (India)Paul-Louis Godier (France)Mohamed Mahdy (Egypt)Yashovardhan Sodhani (India)Rydwan Ahmed (Bangladesh) Five out the ten students have received scholarships from our »

As a part of the Aarhus Photobook Week, faculty teacher Mads Greve gave a talk about his recent book “Homesick” during the Open Book Market at Godsbanen this Sunday the 17th of October 2021. Homesick is a personal photobook, where Mads Greve interprets his own state of mind. It’s a »

Shirin Abedi has won the Felix Schöller Newcomer Award for her project “May I Have This Dance?” Her project is exhibited till 6th of march 2022 in the Museum for Cultural History in The Museumsquartier Osnabrück. Shirin Abedi started the story as her final Photo Story during her Photo 1 »

We’re happy to announce that we have selected the 12 photographers, who will participate in the Language of Photojournalism Programme in Cairo. The Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Initiative (DEDI) and DMJX Photojournalism will run a series of four workshops at DEDI in Cairo. The workshops will be conducted by DMJX teachers Gitte »

The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund has announced this year’s grant recipients and DMJX student Salih Baheer has received the $5,000 Eugene Smith Student grant for his project “22 Days in Between”. “22 Days in Between” is a narrative journey looking back at the loss of Salih Basheer’s parents and »

Bernhard Poscher‘s project “Sad Socrates and Happy Pigs” has been selected for the photographers’ festival “Vilnius Photo Circle”. “Sad Socrates and Happy Pigs” is among the 11 projects that were selected for “The Circle of Life” contest for the festival. Bernhard Poscher particioated in the festival on the 2nd of »