Two Artist talks at Life Exposed

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 »

Life Exposed screened at a pop up show

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. »

Moments from the opening of Life Exposed

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 »

Mads Greve to talk at Copenhagen Photo Festival book event

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. »

Artist residency on nine square meters

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 opens tomorrow

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 »

Tanzin Wahab will do the opening speech for Life Exposed

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 »

Malene Anthony Nielsen won the Kravling Prize

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 »

Artist talks at Life Exposed

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: »

Video documentaries by Photo I students online

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 »

Kick off International Diploma

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 »

Anne Bæk and Morten Lau-Nielsen’s documentary in Politiken

Anne Bæk and Morten Lau-Nielsen’s current story about the ten-year refugee Abdi and his family is on the front page of Politiken today. Front page of today’s Politiken. The two third term students made a video documentary about Abdi and his family this spring. The documentary is also online at »

Interview with Christian Liliendahl

The website Fotoroom.com has made an interview with Christian Liliendahl about his final BA-project Beyond Laponia. Christian Liliendahl graduated with this project in 2016 and is still working on it. Portrait of Ebba Enbom, Jokkmok. Photo by Christian Liliendahl. »

Making the anniversary magazine

Faculty teacher Mads Greve and layouter Lars Bai discussing the design of the anniversary magazine “Life Exposed”. It is truly busy days right now. The anniversary magazine is being made and today the layouter Lars Bai came by the school with his first design suggestions. The magazine will have an »

Svold and Hasemann in Washington Post

Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann‘s project about the refugees stuck in the city of Belgrade is published in Washington Post. 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 »

Two DMJX students exhibit at Head On Photo Festival

Two DMJX students have their final Diploma projects exhibited at the Head On Photo Festival in Sydney, Australia from the 6th till the 14th of May. Alana Holmberg shows her project Resist Laughter about young feminists in Turkey. The project was made during Photo II at DMJX in 2015. Portrait »

Second term students launch the magazine "Sønderlandet"

Our Danish second term students launch their magazine “Sønderlandet” with seven individual stories from the south region of Denmark. Front cover of the magazine Sønderlandet produced by our second term students. Click the image to read the magazine. The photojournalists have been on a week long trip where they have »

Nora Klein has published her diploma project

Nora Klein finished her final Photo II project in 2013 with a project about depression. Back at her home institution in Hannover, she continued the project in 2014 and did her degree about the same subject. Cover of Nora Klein’s book Mal gut, mehr schlecht. Now, the project has been »

Giulia Mangione selected for Kassel Dummy Award

Giulia Mangione‘s book The Happy Show is in the shortlist for the Kassel Dummy Award, which is right now at Istanbul Photobook Festival. Picture from Giulia Mangione’s project The Happy Show. Giulia started her project about the happy Danes as her final Photo Story during Photo I in the spring »

DMJX students selected for Joop Swart Masterclass

DMJX students Heba Khamis (Egypt) and Rebecka Uhlin (Sweden) are among the 12 young photographers, who are selected for this year’s Joop Swart Masterclass organized by World Press Photo. Heba Khamis’ selected port folio consisted of her story “Banned Beauty”, which will also be a part of our 25 years’ »