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Janus Engel listens to the motivation for the Scanpix Prize read by Søren Pagter at the graduation ceremony this Thursday. Photo: Laura Bisgaard Krogh At the graduation ceremony yesterday, Janus Engel received the Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA-project. Janus Engel got the prize for his project “The National Immune »

This Saturday 250 guests came to see Life Exposed at the opening at Pixlart, Østervrå in Northern Jutland. Queue in front of Pixlart this Saturday to get to see Life Exposed in the former church. Photo: Pixlart. The main hall at Pixlart, where the Life Exposed stories are shown on »

Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann‘s project about the refugees stuck in the city of Belgrade is published in Features Shot. About 1,000 refugees and migrants sleep in abandoned warehouses, train wagons and shacks behind the central train station in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade. Photo by Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann. Mathias »

Life Exposed will be screened at Pixlart in the following five weeks. Photo: Ulrik Hasemann and Mathias Svold. Our anniversary exhibition Life Exposed opens at Pixlart Gallery, Østervrå, Northern Jutland, tomorrow at 1pm. The set up wil be totally different than the container exhibition at Copenhagen Photo Festival, but just »

Evening screening at Visa pour l’Image. Photo: Canon. A jury consisting of photographer Magnus Wennman from Aftonbladet, picture editor Thomas Borberg from Politiken and Per Karlsson from Canon Sweden has selected the 6 DMJX students who will go to Visa pour l’Image this September with the Canon Student program. The »

Cecile Smetana Baudier‘s BA project from 2016 “Diaspora” is published in The New Yorker with an introduction by Jonathan Blitzer. Photo from “Diaspora” by Cecile Smetana Baudier. “Diaspora” is the story about the Afro-American communmity Costa Chica in Mexico. »

The traditional final screening day was held at DMJX today. All photojournalist students gathered in the auditorium, where they showed projects from their final workshops to each other. Arthur Cammelbeeck from second term opened today’s screening with his first year project. Photo: Søren Pagter. Second term students discussing their project »

As a part of our 25 years anniversary we have invited our international partners for the celebration and for a visit at the school. Søren Pagter explaining about the magazine workshops at DMJX. Photo: Bruce Strong. Yesterday, Bruce Strong (Syracuse University, USA), Nishant Shilpakar (Photo.Circle, Nepal), Tanzim Wahab (Pathshala, Bangladesh) »

Yesterday, two artist talks were held at Life Exposed. Evgeny Makarov at his Narko Stop. Photo: Dominik Betz Evgeny Makarov were talking about his project Narko Stop. And Nanna Navntoft, Sille Veilmark and Benjamin Nørskov were talking about their video documentary Crazy About Food. This coming Thursday at 4pm Ulrik »

The Pixlart Gallery has made pop up night screenings different places in Copenhagen during Copenhagen Photo Festival. The night between Sunday and Monday they showed a selection of Life Exposed at Kgs. Nytorv. Narko Stop by Evgeny Makarov screened at Kgs. Nytorv in the center of Copenhagen. Photo: Tao Lytzen. »

Søren Pagter opening Life Exposed and thanking all the people, who have contributed to the exhibition Photo: Noa City-Eliyahu. The guests listening to the opening speech by Tanzim Wahab at Life Exposed this Friday. Photo: Noa City-Eliyahu. The crowd gathered in the yard of the exhibition place for a drone »

At a photo book event at Copenhagen Photo Festival tomorrow faculty teacher Mads Greve will give a small talk about his book Blind Date. At the event former student Mathias Christensen will also be talking talking about his book Black Nest. Program and info here. »

Terje Abusdal in front of his 9 square meters house in Amsterdam. Photo: Søren Pagter. In the spring 2014 Terje Abusdal graudated with a project about the forrest Finns – slash and burn farmers, who 400 years ago migrated from Finland to forrest area along the Norwegian and Swedish border. »

Life Exposed exhibition. Photo by Søren Pagter. The big banners are up and the exhibitions are ready; tomorrow we’re ready to greet you all at Life Exposed – our anniversary exhibition. Life Exposed exhibition. Photo by Søren Pagter. We’re opening Friday at 4 pm, Gasværksgrunden, Sionsgade 5 in Copenhagen. Mathias »

Tanzim Wahab We’re happy to announce that Tanzim Wahab from our partner school, Pathshala in Bangladesh, will do the opening speech at Life Exposed. Tanzim Wahab is a Bangladeshi writer, curator and photographer, who works within photographic education with a focus on South-Asian context. Tanzim is the chief curator of »

Front page from Malene Anthony’s short documentary “Am I going to die now?” At the award ceremony this Saturday Malene Anthony Nielsen won the Kravling Prize in the Tv and photography category with her story “Er det nu jeg skal dø?” The short documentary tells the story about 8 year »

Screen shot from the documentary Crazy About Food by Nanna Navntoft, Sille Veilmark and Benjamin Nørskov. As a part of the celebration of our 25 years anniversary we’re also planning artist talks at Life Exposed – the anniversary exhibition. On the following dates you can meet students at their exhibitions: »

Screenshot from the video documentary “broken Love” by Jennifer Gotrik and Kristina Steiner – You can watch the documentaries by clicking the icons in the bottom. Our ten international Photo I students have made the last adjustments on their video documentaries and we’re now ready to launch them. You can »

Our new international diploma programme made in co-operation with Noor Images and World Press Photo started today at the World Press Photo office in Amsterdam. Alixandra Fazzina welcoming the participants at the first International Diploma course. Photo by Søren Pagter The 11 participants were welcomed by Asmara Pelupessy (Noor), Lars »