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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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 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 »

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. »

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 »