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 »
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, »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Cecile Smetana Baudier‘s final BA-project “Diaspora” is among the 11 finalists at the International Women Photographers Award (IWPA). In 2015, the Afro-Mexican community were finally recognized by the Mexican government, but in the small villages of Costa Chica, Oaxaca, people are still struggling to regain their identity. Photo by Cecile »
Poul Madsen, external guest teacher at DMJX since 2010, is among the 33 photographers, who has been nominated for the Danish POY. Poul Madsen has, together with Henrik Kastenskov, developed and are still running our teaching in video documentary. The two guys have been the coaches for many prize winning »
Rasmus Degnbol starting his lecture at DMJX. Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen. Prize winning photographer Rasmus Degnbol gave the welcoming lecture for all DMJX photojournalist students this afternoon. Rasmus talked about how he combines comissioned work with his personal projects. In the very honest lecture Rasmus gave an insight of »
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Danish photojournalist education in 2017 throughout the year on instagram we will show some of the projects and series that have been created during these 25 years. We will keep sharing new work, but once in a while the older projects will »
Second term student Laura Bisgaard covered the graduation ceremony yesterday at DMJX: The photojournalists had brought flags and balloons to make the graduation ceremony even more memorable. Photo by Laura Bisgaard. Per Bjerre, Head of media at The Public Church’s aid organization, held a thoughtfull and funny graduation speech. Read »
The gradutaion ceremony for all Danish journalists and photojournalists were held today at DMJX in Aarhus. As it has become a tradition, the picture agency Scanpix handed out a prize for this term’s best photojournalistic project. Picture from Daniel Hjorth’s final BA-project “they’re building a city”. Photo by Daniel Hjorth. »
Over night we passed 1000 followers on our official Facebook-site – DMJX Photojournalism. We happy and proud that people have an interest in our school and in our students’ work. We’re looking forward to sharing more news with you all. »
We’re proud to launch the new international diploma programme Show the World in co-operation with World Press Photo and NOOR Images. Frontpage of the webpage for the Shoe the World – a new international diploma programme from WPP, NOOR Images and DMJX. Over the past year the three parties, World »
Thursday last week Danish photographer and photobook auteur Krass Clement visited DMJX. The lecture was aranged in cooperation with Fotografisk Salon and their members and our students experienced Clement talk about and show his works. He talked about his newest books Bag Saga Blok and Impasse Hotel Syria as well as »
Head of the photojournalism department, Søren Pagter, turns 50 today. Pagter has been teaching at DMJX since 1998 and since 1999 he has been the head of the department with responsibility for both the Danish BA programme and the two international photojournalism programmes. In different interviews for various newspapers Pagter »
Marcel Maffei‘s final Diploma project “Living on the Line of Fire” from the autumn 2015 is featured in the photography publication Splash and Grab. Picture from Marcel Maffei’s project “Living on the Line of Fire”. Marcel Maffei also won bronze with this story in the category International Picture Story at »
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 »
