In the autumn 2014 students of photojournalism from 32 schools in 16 different countries all worked on the theme “family life” for their stoires. Now, the huge Family.Life website with all the students’ stories from all over the world has been launched and DMJX is the largest contributor of all schools »
Kasper Løftgaard was awarded the Scanpix Prize for best Danish photojournalistic BA project at the graduation ceremony today. Kasper Løftgaard received the Scanpix Prize at the graduation ceremony today. Picture by Mikkel Berg. Kaspoer Løftgaard won with his project “Otte sekunder for resten af livet” – a story from Texas, »
Tomrrow at approximently 9:10, Søren Pagter will be interviewed live in the national radio programme “Gandhi” on DR P3. In the interview Søren Pagter will talk about what is a good picture, why do we remember certain pictures and does photography make a difference? The interview will be in Danish »
The Eddie Adams workshop has just announced the 100 students to participate in this year’s workshop. Two DMJX-students are among the selected students from all over the world: Brittany Greeson, who attended and graduated our photo1 in the fall 2014. Felix von der Osten, who attended and graduated both our »
Former student Sisse Stroyer is right now exhibiting her Sexting project at the Triennale of Photography in Hamburg. The triennale runs from the 18th til the 28th of June. In this video Sisse is showing us how her project is presented at the festival. Video of the Sisse Stroyer’s Sexting exhibition at »
Last friday our Danish third term students finished their web documentary workshop. During this past week they have refined and re-edited their stories, which are now available online. The four stories are: “Tænder du på mig” by Olafur Steinar Gestsson & Jens Welding Øllgaard. “Silent Enemy” by Casper Holmenlund Christensen and Emil »
The Copenhagen Photo Festival, which has been running for the past two weeks, is more than just a festival with exhibitions and lectures. The organisation behind the festival is also creating a website with online interviews with photographers and tutorials on photography. Søren Pagter talks about how to create a »
Five DMJX-students’ projects will be exhibited at the third Delhi Photo Festival from the 30th of October to the 8th of November this year. – Claudia Gori will be represented with her story “My Name is Camilla and I Love my Life”. Claudia did the story as her final photo story »
Last Friday we held our traditional final screening day, where students from all semesters gathered in the TV-auditorium to show their work and to say goodbye to each other. At the same time our international students received their transcripts and we made the half-year group picture. Here’s some pictures from »
Casper Holmenlund Christensen’s story about refugees living in fear in Greece has been published in Kristeligt Dagblad on Saturday the 13th of June. You can read the intro here. Casper made the story during a reportage workshop this spring. The workshop was conducted by photographer Carsten Snejbjerg. Casper Holmenlund Christensen starts »
The July edition of BJP (British Journal of Photography) focusses on how to teach photography. The magazine presents a series of stories about what they call “some of the world’s best photography educators”. We’re happy and proud to be among the schools selected for presentation in this magazine. The BJP presents »
Søren Pagter will moderate a debate on “sincere photography” today at 4pm at Photo Stage, Slottet, Pasteurvej 4 in Copenhagen. The debate will be a critical discussion about the definitions on sincere photography. The panel for the debate will be: Mads Nissen, photographer at Politiken Linda Hansen, photographer and teacher »
Roger Anis, Photo2 student from Egypt, gave today a lecture about his participation in the World Press Photo workshop “Beyond the Arab Spring”. Roger Anis at the lecture today – showing pictures from his story about the collapse of the tourist industry in Egypt. Picture by Fabian Fiechter. Roger showed »
Sunday, Giulia Mangione won first prize with her project “Danesland” at Fotoleggendo Festival in Rome. Picture from the project “Danesland” by Giulia Mangione. Picture from the project “Danesland” by Giulia Mangione. Fotoleggendo is a photography competition where the winner is selected based on portfolio reviews. Giulia Mangione did the project »
The sixth Copenhagen Photo Festival opens tomorrow with an amazing selection of exhibitions, talks and events. The DMJX Photojournalism Education will not be officially present with ONE exhibition of students’ work. Nevertheless, DMJX Photojournalism will be at the festival in many other ways: Picture from the “Black Nest” project by »
This week Ken Light, photographer and professor at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has visited DMJX. During his visit Ken Light gave two lectures – one in the auditorium for all interested students and one exclusive lecture for our final year students. Ken Light (to the right) together with our »
Gregers Tycho‘s BA project “Never Learned to Dance” has been released as a book by the same name. Cover of the book “Never Learned to Dance” by Gergers Tycho. The project is a selection of stories about the people living at Lindegårdshusene – a housing facility in Roskilde for around »
A selection of Kasper Løftgaard‘s project “Home, Once” is in PDN’s Emerging Magazine. You can find the pictures at page 20-22. Portrait of Kasper’s mother from the project “Home, Once”. Kasper did the the story as his Visual Project during his 8th semester this spring. This week, Kasper handed in »
Our final-year students had to meet their deadline for their final projects this morning. So it was a group of tired, but happy students I met when I came to work. Barbara “the Cocoon” Leolini. Picture by Fabian Fiechter. Kasper Løftgaard. Picture by Fabian Fiechter. Barbara Leolini, Fabian Fiechter and Claudia Gori. »
During his Visual Project earlier this year, Michael Drost-Hansen went to Burma to make a story about the muslim Rohingya people, who’re living in refugee camps after the Burmese have burned down their villages, neighboorhoods and houses. The spread from Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten with Michael Drost-Hansen’s Rohingya story. Michael’s story was published yesterday »
