An indepedant jury have selected 100 students from Europe and Africa to participate in the Canon Student Development Programme 2022. 10 of the selected students come from DMJX. The 10 DMJX students selected for the programme are:Signe Sofie Lægsgaard Baadsgaard – Second termMaria Høy Hansen – Second termRydwan Ahmed – »
The final workshop in the Egyptian Language of Photojournalism programme was held at DEDI – The Danish Egyptian Dialogue Initiative in Cairo last week. The workshop concluded with a very succesfull exhibition in downtown Cairo, where 11 of the 12 participating Egyptian photographers showed their final stories. Back in November »
From 16 very strong applications, the jury has selected four nominees for The ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award: Stranger Touristby Fares Zaitoon Panoramics of Disasterby Manuel Seoane You still don’t know my nameby Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker & Louise Herrche Serup No Man’s Landby Mikkel Hørlyck The five-people jury received and read the »
Friday the 10th of June, the spring term was concluded with the traditional final screening day, where photojournalist students from Photo I, second and fourth term gathered to show their projects to one another. »
Saturday June 4th, the Kravling Awards were announced at a prize ceremony at Bremen Theater in Copenhagen. Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker and Louise Herrche Serup won in the photo category with their BA-project “You still don’t know my name”. The Kravling Awards are created by the Danish media students themsleves and »
Louise Herrche Serup, Jesper Houborg and Mads Frost will represent DMJX with solo exhibitions at Copenhagen Photo Festival 2022. Iben Gad and Oscar Scott Carl have been selected for the Futures Nordic Talent 2022 and will also exhibit at the festival. I’ll eat you up. I love you so by »
Anders Holst Pedersen and Kim Frost’s video documentary “Swan Music Radio” has been nominated in both “The Danish Competition” and “Documentary Competition” at OFF – Odense International Film Festival. OFF – Odense International Film Festival runs in Odense from August 29th till September 4th, 2022 “Swan Music Radio” was made »
Esther Kofoed Sørensen and Hannah Aurora Almstrup made, during their third term documentary workshop, a story about the lack of rights for women to have free abortion on The Faroe Islands. With the current debate on abortion rights in the US, the story is more present than ever and is »
Friday the 6th of May, our Danish second term students launched their magazine with stories made during a one-week reportage trip to the Danish town Struer. The 12 Danish students have received teaching and done research during the first of a four weeks’ workshop. In the second week, they all »
ECCA Family Foundation will promote the dissemination of society-relevant photojournalism and will establish an award that will enable newly qualified photojournalists to obtain support to display their BA projects to the public. There are many gems among the photojournalism assignments that Danish and international photojournalism students undertake in their final »
Friday the 22nd, the CPOY and POY held a day of conversations at Reynolds Journalism Institute in Columbia, Missouri with the photographers of the Year from both the CPOY and the POY. College Photographer of the Year, Valdemar Stroe Ren gave a talk and received his prize during the conference. »
Thursday the 21st of April, Nanna Navntoft gave a lecture for all photojournalist students at DMJX. DMJX alumni and Canon Ambassador, Nanna Navntoft talked about the process of making her Binge Eating Disorder project – how she had found her protagonists and co-operated with them in making their portraits and »
At a reception on Friday the 8th of April, our Photo I students released a magazine, where they have worked with stories under the topic “openings”. The ten photojournalists behind the magazine are:Sandipa Malakar (India)Teresa Menka (Ghana)Rachel Ellis (USA)Kim Christin Zeidler (Germany)Paul-Louis Godier (France)Mohamed Mahdy (Egypt)Sini Lukka (Finland)Ralitsa Belcheva (Bulgaria)Rydwan »
Right now, four exhibitions made by current and former DMJX-students are on display around Europe. Terje Abusdal – Slash and Burn Shirin Abedi – “May I Have This Dance?” Benjamin Nørskov – EPA Sweden Rydwan Ahmed – The Untouchables »
Photojournalist Emilie Lærke Henriksen and journalist Signe Fosgrau’s BA-project about the youth in the religious movement Inner Mission has been published in the Danish daily Information on the 26th of February. Emilie and Signe received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA-project for their online story. »
International Photo I and Danish second term students concluded their first workshop of the spring term, Photojournalistic Method, with a mutual exhibition showing their short documentary stories. »
The award ceremony for the Danish POY 2021 was held Friday the 4th of March at the National Library in Copenhagen. 11 DMJX students and 2021-graduates were nominated at the competition – five projects won first prizes and five projects received second prizes. Long Term ProjectFirst prize to Mikkel Hørlyck »
Tuesday the 22nd February, we held online Open School events for interested applicants for our Danish BA-education. Recordings of some of the events are now available online and on Wednesday the 2nd March, you can visit DMJX physically. Wednesday the 2nd March, we’re ready to welcome future applicants physically at »
We’re so lucky that our former students often come back to visit us and the school – and maybe also to develop their films or scan their work. But, it’s the first time that an alumni comes all the way from Iran to use our scanners. This past week, Hashem »
The spring term begun a couple of weeks ago and Monday the 7th of February, DMJX alumni Asger Ladefoged gave the welsome lecture for all photojournalist students. »
