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’ »

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 »