Hashem Shakeri selected for Foam Talent 2020

Each year the Foam Magazine selects talented photographers between the ages of 18 and 35 from all across the world, who they find are interesting and worth to follow. Foam Magazine creates a special talent edition of their magazine in which they publish the selected stories. Hashem Shakeri is among »

Kenneth Lysbjerg Koustrup’s BA project in Ud & Se

A part of Kenneth Lysbjerg Koustrup’s BA project about the beautiful, but fragile Danish lakes is published in the October edition of the Danish magazine Ud & Se. The magazine is available online and in all DSB trains and train stations in Denmark. Kenneth graduated in June 2019. »

DMJX students on field trip to Copenhagen

25 Danish third term and Photo I students and their teachers have been on a two days field trip to Copenhagen. The DMJX group started Thursday with an exclusive lecture with Sanne de Wilde from Noor Images, who also gave the opening speech at the World Press Photo exhibition at »

Laura Bisgaard Krogh and Mads Greve exhibit in Matera, Italy

Laura Bisgaard Krogh and Mads Greve are part of the exhibition “Visions From Europe” – a photographic tribute to Matera Basilicata 2019 by Students and Teachers from 28 Countries. In May 2019, Laura Bisgaard Krogh and Mads Greve were invited to the European Cultural City, Matera in Italy for an »

Mikkel Hørlyck has won first prize at IPA – Int’l Photography Awards

Mikkel Hørlyck has received a first prize with his story “The Neglected” in the category Editorial, Contemporary Issues in the non-professional/student section at IPA – International Photography Awards. Mikkel made the story about the orphanage in Orhei, Moldova during his third term reportage in September and October 2016. Mikkel is »

Two scholarships available for studying at DMJX in the spring 2020

We’re are extremely happy that the VII Foundation continues to support DMJX Photojournalism by funding grants for two international students coming from the Majority World to study at DMJX in the spring 2020. The one grant will be named The Alexandra Boulat Grant in remembrance of the late, prize winning »

The first out of four workshops in Cairo has started

In co-operation with Photopia and with financial support from DEDI, the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Initiative, DMJX photojournalism has organized an educational programme for 12 Egyptian photographers. The first out of the four workshops is currently happening at Photopia in Cairo. Søren Pagter is conducting the first workshop in Cairo this »

Hashem Shakeri has received Getty Images Reportage Grant

Getty Images has announced the three recipients of the 2019 Reportage Grants and former DMJX student Hashem Shakeri has won a grant of $ 15,000. Hashem Shakeri has received the prize based on his project “An Elegy for the Death of Hamun”, which he made as his final project during »

Ella Kiviniemi exhibited at Wiesbaden Photo Days

Ella Kiviniemi‘s project “By the Borderline”, which she started as her final diploma project at DMJX in 2015, was exhibited at the 11th Wiesbaden Photo Days from the 17th of August till the 1st of September. Wiesbaden Photo days is a biennale and one of the oldest photo festivals in »

DMJX students at Visa pour l’Image

Seven DMJX students are participating in this year’s Visa Pour l’Image as a part of Canon’s Student Devlopment Programme and Andreas Haubjerg, who participated in the programme last year, was selected for screening at this year’s festival. »

Ulrik Hasemann gave welcome lecture at DMJX

Ulrik Hasemann gave this year’s welcome lecture to all our photojournalist students in the TV-auditorium, yesterday. At the lecture, Ulrik explained how he and Mathias Svold almost by accident began to work together during their 7th term at DMJX. Here, they were expected to work in groups and this was »

Pop-up exhibition and DMJX Festival

Monday the 2nd of September, DMJX celebrated the 75 years’ anniversary of the start of the first education programme at the school. The anniversary was celebrated with a day’s festival with talks and exhibitions at the cultural house Dokk1 in Aarhus. »

Pieter ten Hoopen at DMJX

Yesterday, Pieter ten Hoopen gave a lecture for all DMJX photojournalism students. Pieter teaches at DMJX every term and this week he teaches our final year students. Pieter ten Hoopen gave a very honest and educational lecture at DMJX yesterday afternoon. Pieter admitted that he was actually a really bad »

Picture gallery from the Cultural Meeting

DMJX photojournalism attended the annual Cultural Meeting at Mors this Thursday the 22nd till Saturday the 24th of August. Click to watch the students’ magazine “Morsø” and the “Coastland” project. The exhibition is kindly supported by Morsøfonden and Nordic Digital Lab. »

DMJX students at The Cultural Meeting on Mors

Our 16 third term students will participate in and exhibit at the annual Cultural Meeting, which opens this Thursday, the 22nd of August on the Danish island Mors. The DMJX students will exhibit their magazine stories, which they made on Mors in the spring earlier this year. Selected pictures will »

DMJX project becomes a book after ten years

Ten years ago, in 2009, Asbjørn Sand, photographed an “a day in the life of…” assignment during his second term at DMJX. This became the start of a ten years long personal project, which has now been published in the book “Slip”. In the summer holiday between his second and »

DMJX runs a series of workshops in Cairo

DMJX photojournalism has created an educational programme consisting of four different workshops, which will run this autumn and in the spring 2020 in Cairo. In co-operation with Photopia and with financial support from DEDI, the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Initiative, DMJX photojournalism will organize an educational programme for Egyptian photographers. The »

Sina Niemeyer exhibits at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg

Sina Niemeyer‘s project “Für Mich” is part of a group exhibition in Deichtorhallen, which runs from 12th of July until the 3rd of October. “Für Mich” is a personal story where Sina adresses the sexual abuse she experienced as a child. The project was made as her Visual Project at »