Barbara Leolini’s Visual Project at Lens Culture

Together with the rest of the Photo2 and Danish 8th term students Barbara Leolini finished her Visual Project last week. A picture from Barbara Leolin’s project “The Swallows return”. Barbara’s project “The Swallows Return” is now featured at Lens Culture – where you can also see another Visual Project; “The »

Pascal Giese’s film in "Zeit Online"

The film “Enjoy the Silence” by Pascal Giese is featured at Zeit Online for the next month. You can watch the film at Zeit online here or at Pascal own website. Screenshoot from Pascal Giese’s film “Enjoy the Silence”. Pascal Giese did the film about the deaf boy Robert Klees as his final »

Daniel Ekbladh has won at Swedish POY

Daniel Ekbladh has won second prize in the multimedia category at the Swedish POY 2014/2015. Daniel won with his story “Bye Bye Bröttjestad”, which he made as his Visual Project during the Photo 2 programme in the fall 2014.  Daniel Ekbladh receiving his prize at the award ceremony for the Sweidsh »

DMJX presented in PDN Edu

The DMJX photojournalism programme is presented in the new edition of the PDN Edu magazine. This edition of the PDN magazine focusses on the topic “Family”. Our school is presented together with two other universities, which have all worked with the family topic as a part of the Family.Life project »

Alixandra Fazzina at DMJX

From today and one week ahead Noor-photographer Alixandra Fazzina will be teaching our final year students in order to prepare them for their final BA/Diploma projects. Alixandra Fazzina teaching at DMJX today. Picture by Fabian Fiechter. While in Denmark, Alixandra Fazzina will give two lectures: – one on the 17th »

Søren Pagter reviews Joachim Ladefoged’s new book

Søren Pagter has made a review for Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten on Joachim Ladefoged‘s new book “Tiden efter min tid”. The review was published Saturday the 28th of February and is also available online here. »

Seven students win all the prizes in one category at Danish POY

This afternoon the winners of the Danish Picture of the Year 2014 were announced at the award cermony at the National Library in Copenhagen. 12 DMJX-students out of a total of 36 nominated photographers were nominated for the Danish POY. All three prizes in the multimedia category were won by DMJX-students »

Søren Pagter about staged photojournalism

Søren Pagter has been interviewed for magazine “Journalisten” about the WPP disqualification of Giovanni Troilo. In the interview Søren Pagter states that the whole matter can open a new debate about staged photojournalism. “Journalistic manipulation is just as problematic as digital manipulation”, Søren Pagter says in the interview. You can read »

Søren Pagter in the news in Iceland

Last week the winners of the Picture of the Year in Iceland were announced at a ceremony in Reykjavik. Sigrtyggur Ari Jóhannsson wins Picture of the Year 2014 in Iceland with this picture of a young refugee on hunger strike. Søren Pagter was the head judge of the competition and while »

Marcus Trappaud Bjørn in N.Y. Times

Marcus Trappaud Bjørn’s prize winning story “The Staten Island Ferry” has been published in the New York Times this Sunday the 1st of March. The story is also available online. The New York Times Album section from the 1st March 2014. Marcus Trappaud Bjørn did the story while studying at »

2nd semester at ARoS

Today our 2nd semester visited ARoS Museum of Art in Aarhus with guest teacher Julie Bilgrau, who took this photo of the class at a 3D installation. »

Open School in Copenhagen

Yesterday, the DMJX school in Copenhagen opened the doors for people interested in studying at one of the nine BA educations at DMJX.  Kasper Palsnov, Camilla Rønde, Søren Pagter and Sophia Lydolph Ready for the open school in Copenhagen. Søren Pagter and three students of photojournalism told about the photojournalism »

Emanuele Camerini wins Canon Profifoto Prize

Emanuele Camerini is among the winners of Canon Profifoto Prize with his story “The Twelfth Night”, which tells about the myth about the seal woman on the Faroe Islands. Picture from the story “The Twelfth Night” by Emanuele Camerini. Emanuele did the story as his final diploma project in the fall »

Mads Nissen wins World Press Photo 2014

Normally, we only post news about DMJX students, DMJX projects and life at the school, but some news are simply so big that we need to post them on our website. Danish photographer Mads Nissen has today won World Press Photo of the year 2014 with the picture of Jon »

Claudia Gori’s story published at Muskelsvindfonden

Claudia Gori’s story “My name is Camilla and I love my life” is published in Muskelsvindfonden‘s magazine and on their website. A spread from the book as Claudia Gori made it at DMJX. The story is about Camilla Kjeldsen Nielsen, who suffers muscular dystrophy and is the mother of three kids.  »

Two DMJX-projects selected for the "30 under 30" competition

This week the selected stories for the “30 under 30” competition were announced – and two out of the 30 winning projects have been made at DMJX: From the project “Across the River” by Jasper Bastian. Jasper Bastian was selected for his diploma project “Across the River” about the divided town »

Marcus Trappaud Bjørn wins at POYi

Right now the 72nd POYi competition is being judged at Missouri University in Columbia, Missouri, USA. Yesterday, the winners of the portrait category were announced and final year student Marcus Trappaud Bjørn won silver in portrait series with his portraits from the Staten Island Ferry. Portrait from “The Staten Island »

DMJX Close to Nature

During class earlier this week we had unexpected visitors. Tobias Nicolai Kvist Larsen grabbed a camera and documented the visit. »

Anders Birch giving welcome lecture

Seven years ago Anders Birch graduated his BA at DMJX with his story “Hometown” about Midland, Texas – the hometown of former US president George W. Bush. Today, Anders Birch was back at DMJX to give the welcome lecture for all our photojournalist students.  At the lecture Anders Birch took the »