Greve and Pagter on roundtrip in the US

Mads Greve and Søren Pagter are on a study trip visiting three different schools in the US this week. Søren Pagter giving a morning lecture for the photojournalist students at Missouri University. Photo by Mads Greve. First stop is Missouri University, where Greve and Pagter gave a lecture about the »

Mark the date: 25 years’ anniversary on the 2nd of June 2017

There has been a small change in the date for our 25 years’ anniversary. Both the official opening of the anniversary exhibition and the party will be held on Friday the 2nd of June The 25 years’ anniversary exhibition will open at 4 pm on Friday the 2nd of June. »

Mads Claus Rasmussen’s first year project in DR online

Mads Claus Rasmussen‘s first year project about the war veteran Torsten Elkjær Andersen, who suffers from PTSD is published  at DR online today. Portrait of the 45-year old war veteran Torsten Elkjær Andersen, who is fighting every day to get his PTSD acknowledged. Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen. The national »

Magazine lauch today at 2 pm

Our international Photo 1 stduents have just received the printed copies of their magazine “Heimat”. The front cover of Photo 1 students magazine Heimat. Click to watch what’s inside. Today, at 2pm we’re celebrating the launch of the magazine with a small reception in the front hall of DMJX. The »

Ulrik Hasemann wins Informations Fotopris

Final year student Ulrik Hasemann was awarded Informations Fotopris yesterday. The Jungle in Calais. One of the pictures from Ulrik Hasemann’s prize winning portfolio. Photo by: Ulrik Hasemann. Ulrik Hasemann has been interning at Information and the jury writes among other things in their statement for the prize: Ulrik Hasemann »

Final days of Nordic/Russian master class

In the past three days DMJX faculty teacher, Mads Greve and photographer at Politiken, Mads Nissen have worked with a group of 16 Nordic and Russian photographers at the master class “Next to Me”. Evgeny Makarov (Russia), Kyrre Lien (Norway) and Yaroslava Tarasova (Russia) are editing a story about how »

Doc films selected for 25 years anniversary exhibition

We’re happy to announce that we have selected the video documentaries, which will be screened at the 25 years’ anniversary exhibition in June this year. The five chosen short documentaries are: Crazy about foodby Nanna Navntoft, Sille Veilmark and Benjamin Nørskov. The Egostripper by Katrine Marie Kragh and Anders Rye »

Findings in the final year students’ class room

Last week our final year students ended the teaching preparing them for their final BA/Diploma projects – and this week they have all left to do their stories. While cleaning up in their class room we found all their name signs, which they had decorated while having classes. We’re sharing »

Rising Talent grant for students

DMJX-students trying out Olympus equipment. Photo by Søren Pagter. Last week Olympus representatives visited the school to present the brands new student grant and a selection of Olympus equipment. In the future DMJX students can apply for the Rising Talent grant twice a year. Based on the applications Olympus will »

Laura and Maria have produced a video with Alixandra Fazzina

Second term students, Laura Bisgaard Krogh and Maria Albrechtsen Mortensen produced a short promotion interview with Alixandra Fazzina last week. Click the image to watch the video interview with Alixandra Fazzina. Produced by Laura Bisgaard Krogh and Maria Albrechtsen Mortensen. Alixandra Fazzina from Noor Images was visiting DMJX to teach »

Svold and Hasemann in Information

Final year students Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann have just finished a project about the 1000 refugees, who are stuck and live in the streets of Belgrade. Now the project is published online at the Danish newspaper Information. You can also see the full project at the two students original »

Espen Rasmussen at DMJX

Espen Rasmussen lecturing at DMJX. Photo by Fabian Fiechter. The Norwegian photographer and picture editor Espen Rasmussen visited DMJX yesterday and gave a lecture for all our photojournalist students. During the inspiring lecture Espen Rasmussen talked about his work as picture editor at the Norwegian newpaper VG. He gave the »

Betina Garcia wins third prize at Hearst Multimedia

Betina Garcia has won third prize at the Hearst Journalism Competition in the Multimedia category for her story “Los Rancheros” about Hispanics in the USA. Picture from Betina Garcia’s multimedia story “Los Rancheros”, which consists of both stills, video and sound. Photo by Betina Garcia. Betina Garcia did the story »

Cake again

Having class with the current 2. semester equals having cake. Everyday (not kidding) they are bringing cake. Today Laura brought a Danish flag cake her sister made. It tasted as good as it looked. »

3. Semester in Hannover for European Project

This weekend our 3. semester students are visiting Hochschule Hannover in Germany to take part in a cooperation with the German school and the Speos/Magnum school in Paris. Classes from the three schools are meeting to start working on the theme Youth in Europe. During the stay in Hannover the »

DMJX students nominated for Joop Swart Masterclass

The list of 187 nominees for World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass has been announced today. Nine former DMJX-students are on the short list with photographers from 68 differents countries. The DMJX-nominees are: Roger Anis, Egypt Dario Bosio, Italy Matthew Busch, USA Sagar Chetri, Nepal Marie Hald, Denmark Heba Khamis, »

25 years celebration on the 1st of June 2017

Mark these dates in your calenders. The 1st of June this year we’ll open our 25 years anniversary exhibition at the Copenhagen Photo Festival. The anniversary exhibition will consist of five still picture projects and five video documentaries. All of it will be arranged in a container village at the »

DMJX women photojournalists rock

Today is International Women Day and due to that projects made by female DMJX photographers are featured around the world: Portrait from Cécile Smetana Baudier’s final BA-project Diaspora. Photo by Cécile Smetana Baudier. Cécile Smetana Baudier has been selected for Time’s list of “Women in Photography”. Cecile has been selected »

DMJX students win at the Danish POY

The Danish POY award ceremony was held this afternoon at the National Library in Copenhagen. A record high number of 15 DMJX students were nominated for this year’s POY – that is almost half of the total number of 33 nominated photographers. We’re proud to announce that these DMJX-students won »

"Open School" moments

Mathias Fredslund Hansen, Søren Pagter and Vibeke Volder preparing for the “Open School” event. Picture by Mads Claus Rasmussen. Yesterday evening we had a very successful “Open School”. Around 600 guests visited DMJX in Aarhus and around 70 people came to learn more about the photojournalism education. Third term student »