Shirin Abedi shortlisted for Global Peace Photo Award

Shirin Abedi is shortlisted for the Global Peace Photo Award with her story May I Have This Dance? May I Have This Dance? is the story about Nona (18), Mojdeh (21), Reyhaneh (22) and Yasamin (22), who belong to the same ballet group in Tehran. They are part of the »

Hashem Shakeri has won Tokyo International Photography Competition

Hashem Shakeri has been selected as the Grand Prix winner of the 7th edition of Tokyo International Photography Competition. The Tokyo International Photography Competition (TIPC) was created to provide an opportunity for photographers to present their artistic visions beyond their country’s borders and open up the possibilities for cross-pollination and »

Shirin Abedi wins the F3 Award at the Lumix Festival

This afternoon, the winners at this year’s Lumix Festival were announced at an online award ceremony. Shirin Abedi won the F3 – freiraum für fotografie Award for her story “May I Have this Dance”. Shirin’s project documents a ballet group from Iran, it takes us into the lives of young »

Magazine exhibition at Dokk1

Our Danish second term students exhibit their magazine stories at the Library and Citizens’ Services at Aarhus Harbour. During the Covid-19 lock down, the 14 students produced individual stories and produced the magazine [Det vi ikke kan se] – (That, Which We Cannot See). The stories and the magazine are »

Admission test at the new campus

This Friday, we held the second round of the admission test for our Danish BA in photojournalism at the new campus in Aarhus. The second round of the admission test consists of a three hour photo assignment where the applicants are given a specific topic for which they must produce »

International students selected for fall 2020 term

We’re happy to announce that we have selected the international students, who are going to study at DMJX after the summer break. We received 42 applications and have selected 10 students for our international Photo I programme and three students, who will join our Danish final year students during the »

DMJX documentary selected for Odense Film Festival

OFF – Odense International Film Festival has announced the 129 short films from all over the world, that will be shown at this year’s festival.The DMJX documentary “First Comes Love” is among the selected short films. »

Katinka Klinge exhibits at Copenhagen Photo Festival

Katinka Klinge exhibits at the Copenhagen Photo Festival as a part of the project “Reconstruction of Identities”, which will open Wednesday the 10th of June at 5pm. “Reconstruction of Identities” is a combined exhibition by the photographers Katerina Buil Sanne De Wilde, Filippo Venturi, Marine Gastineau, Ana Amado and Martin »

Two DMJX projects selected for Helsinki Photo Festival

The Helsinki Photo Festival has announced this year’s winning projects to be exhibited at the festival from the 7th of July to the 30th of September in Finland – among the winners are two DMJX stories. “A Question of Honour” by Laura Bisgaard Krogh and Andreas Haubjerg has been selected »

Simona Ghizzoni talked about crises in her work

Today, Simona Ghizzoni made the last online talk in the series of presentations organized in co-operation between OsloMet, Canon and DMJX. Simona used various crisis to take the audience through her many projects. She explained how a crisis can be the reason for starting a new creative process. Simona ended »

Presentation by Andreas Vinther and Tobias Stidsen

Andreas Beukel Vinther and Tobias Stidsen presented their video documentary “Before I Disappear” at the DMJX Talk, yesterday. The short video documentary “Before I Disappear” tells the story about the girl Jessica, who suffers from OCD. The two photographers won first prize with this film in the short TV/Video Category »

Danish second term students have launched their magazine

At a reception today, our Danish second term students presented and launched their magazine [Det vi ikke kan se] made during a workshop in the Covid-19 lock down period. The magazine is made by Mads Andreas Frost Magnus HoveMathias Eis Schultz Jonathan Damslund Emma Marie Thomsen Jesper HouborgMarcus Emil Christensen »

Ivor Prickett online talk

Today, we held the third online talk made in co-operation with OsloMet Photojournalism and Canon when Ivor Prickett talked about his work to 50 listeners. Ivor Pricket shared his experiences as a young student from Newport University with the young listeners at the online lecture today. During the lecture, Ivor »

120 listeners for the talk with Aida Muluneh

Today, we held the second of a series of talks arranged in co-operation with OsloMet and Canon. Aida Muluneh gave a very inspirational talk for the 120 listeners. “99 per cent of photography is human interaction”, Aida Muluneh said during today’s online lecture, where she explained how she is working »

Lumix jury met online

This Friday the 24th of April, the picture series jury of the Lumix Festival met online to review all the still picture stories and select this year’s winners. The picture series jury consists of Barbara StaussAndrea HolzbergKatharina MouratidiMalin SchulzGilles SteinmannAndreas TrampeLois Lammerhuber Søren Pagter During the meeting the jury selected »

DMJX talk with Andreas Merrald

We’re continuing our series of DMJX talks where students share their experiences with one another. Today, Andreas Merrald, who is currently interning at Politiken, talked about his isolation project where he interviewed and photographed 20 of his neighbours from his balcony. »

Shirin Abedi wins Deutscher Jugendfotopreis 2020

Shirin Abedi has won Deutscher Jugendfotopreis 2020 with her story “May I have this Dance?” Shirin started the project about women dancers in Iran as her Final Project during Photo I in the spring 2019. After her study at DMJX, Shirin has continued to work on the story, which is »

Seven DMJX projects selected for the Lumix Festival

Five still picture stories and two digital stories made at DMJX have been selected for the 7th Lumix Festival, which should have been held from the 24th till 28th of June in Hanover. Due to the Covid-19 crisis the original festival has unfortunately been cancelled. Instead, the organizors have transformed »

200 participants for the online talk with Fabio Bucciarelli

In co-operation with OsloMet and Canon Europe, DMJX arranged a very present online talk this Friday with Fabio Bucciarelli. who recently covered the Covid-19 situation for New York Times. More than 200 photographers from all over the world attended the very educational lecture, where Fabio Bucciarelli shared a lot of »

Last two DMJX talks

Wednesday and today, we held the last two in a series of four DMJX talks, where some of the students, who had won at the Danish POY, talked about their projects. »