Head of the photojournalism department, Søren Pagter, visited Iran last week. Søren Pagter was invited by Ali Akbar Shirjian from Transition (Gozaar) Art Gallery in Tehran. Søren Pagter conducting an editing excercise with a group of Iranian photographers. Photo by Ali Akbar Shirjian. During the visit Søren Pagter taught 17 »
This fall our international Photo I students and Danish 3rd term students finished their video documentaries. Now, we’re ready to show all seven stories online. See for instance “Always on my Mind” – the story about Henrik Busborg, who are “The Best Elvis in Scandinavia”. “Always on my Mind” – »
The nominees for the Danish Picture of the Year are out. Again this year a lot of our students are among them. The list of nominees includes 31 photographers, photojournalists and tv-photographers 13 of them are students of DMJX. They are : Anders Rye Skjoldjensen, intern PolitikenEmil Kastrup Andersen, 3rd »
Today was the last day of the autumn term – and as it has become a tradition all students of photojournalism gathered to show each other what they had done during their final workshops. Second term student Andreas Haubjerg presenting his first year project. Photo by Søren Pagter. Danish third »
Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann has just finished a 7th semester assignment, where they went to Rold Forrest – the biggest forrest in Denmark – to tell stories from one of the few, natural and untouched areas in Denmark. The spreads from Information this Saturday showing Mathias Svold and Ulrik »
A couple of weeks ago Ólafur Steiner Gestsson won an Award of Excellence at CPOY for his news picture from a public meeting in Kalundborg, Denmark. Right now the picture and Ólafur’s story behind it is behind published many places, for instance in Independant’s Indy 100 and in the Icelandic »
Our international Photo 1 students are approaching their deadline of the video documentaries. So this night and morning they’ve worked hard to be ready for screening at 11. Sohail sleeping on the floor early in the morning, while another group of students work on their video documentary. Photo by Søren »
The American online media Quartz has interviewed Ólafur Steiner Gestsson about his prize winning image from a public meeting in Kalundborg. You can read the interview here. A public meeting in the danish town Kalundborg. The citizens of the town were discussing the plans of a new asylum center located »
The first category in the multimedia division at the CPOY has been judged and DMJX-students won five out of the seven prizes in the category for stories made by individuals or small teams. Screen-shot of the story Crazy about Food by Sille Veilmark, Nanna Navntoft and Benjamin Nørskov. Silver – »
The judging of the still picture division at CPOY has ended and the winners in the final three cactegories has been selected. DMJX-students Janus Engel, Betina Garcia and Ulrik Hasemann has won in two of the categories: Silver, Portfolio – Janus Engel Roxshana, a 23 year old mother of 4 »
The third day of the CPOY judging ended last might (European time) and six more DMJX students won prizes in three of the four categories. Bronze, General News – Ida Marie Odgaard The widow and the relatives of Danish writer Mads Holger look a his coffin a last time before »
Yesterday evening and night (European time) was the second day of the still picture categories at CPOY. The categories International Picture Story, Single Feature Picture, Single Sports Feature and Illustration were judged. The judging resulted in six more DMJX winners in three of the categories. In International Picture Story three »
The first day of the judging of CPOY has ended and the winners in three categories have been selected. Late last night the winners in the Single Portrait and Sports Action categories were announced and two DMJX-students have won three prizes in these categories: Silver, Single Portrait – Philip Davali »
The judging of this year’s CPOY has started at Missouri University in Columbia and the winners of the first category has been selected. And what an amazing start of the competition – Five out of the seven winners in the Spot News category are from DMJX: Gold, Spot News – »
Today, we have reached 1000 followers in our Instagram. Portrait of Idalia from the series “In the Spirit We Seek Truth” by Andreas Haubjerg. Right now our second term student Andreas Haubjerg is sharing his ongoing project about Idalia, who’s a Brazilian women living and working as a prostitute in »
This Friday our international Photo1 students launched their F-magazine with a reception at DMJX in Aarhus. Sagar Chetri celebrates the launch of the students’ magazine with a bottle of sparkling wine. Picture by Patricia Küfuss. The nine students have researched and produced individual stories, which they during the final week »
In the fall 2015 Betina Garcia was an exchange student at our partner school Western Kentucky University. During her stay in USA Betina made a long term project about Hispanics in Kentucky. Screen shot of the front page of Betina Garcia’s web doc about Hispanics in Kentucky. Click to watch. »
Vice Magazine has published Simon Fals’ Visual Project from 2015. Selfportrait by Simon Fals from his project Fear of Darkness. Last fall Simon Fals went to live in a Swedish forrest. Simon’s aim was to confront his own fear of darkness. Picture from Simon Fals’ series Fear of Darkness. Simon »
The legendary Eddie Adams workshop was held last week from the 7th till the 10th of October. Five DMJX students were among the 100 young photographers selected for the workshop. DMJX alumni at Eddie Adams Workshop. From left to right: Alaa Elkamhawi, Sarah Hoffman, Kristen Zeis, Betina Garcia, Eve Edelheit »
Our second term students have spent one week in the south of the Island Funen to create stories for their magazine. Second term students discussing the first version of the layout during the production week. Photo by Mathilde Bech. In the past week they’ve edited the pictures stories, written the »
