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 “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. »
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 »
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 »
During class earlier this week we had unexpected visitors. Tobias Nicolai Kvist Larsen grabbed a camera and documented the visit. »
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 »
Laetitia Vancon has won the Blumm Prize for her story “My home, My Prison” about the Albanian Vukaj family, who suffers from a blood feud with another Albanian family. The Vukaj family, who has now escaped to Belgium, was present at the award ceremony. Laetitia Vancon has decided to give one »
The web documentary “Adam and Eve could easily have been black” made by Sara Gangsted and Mathias Løvgreen Bojesen will be screened at the Ukranian Wiz-Art festival tonight. Screendump from the web documentary. Click the image to see the full story. Sara and Mathias did the story at their third »
Every semester at the demission ceremony the picture agency Scanpix hands out a prize for the best photojournalistic BA project The demission ceremony for the students graduating this fall was held today and here Dennis Lehmann received the Scanpix Prize for his project “Upernavik and Other Stories” – the project »
This week photographer Diana Markosian is teaching our final year students in personal story telling. As a part of her visit, Diana Markosian held a lecture for all our photojournalist students telling about how her career started – comming from a writing background and jumping into photojournalism and personal story »
The photographic website L’Oeil de la Photographie is featuring Emanuele Camerini’s diploma project from the fall of 2014. The project called The Twelfth Night is about the legend of the Seal Woman in the Faroe Islands. See it here or on the link below. »
A few days ago we received a letter sent to us by in the traditional way by the Royal Danish Mail. The letter contained two b/w prints – real handmade prints of two of our former groups of students – shot by one of the students, Terje Abusdal, on his »
Just before Christmas our Danish third term students finished their web documentary workshop arranged by Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Bombay Flying Club. Danish third term students group picture by Søren Pagter. The nine Danish students all worked with the theme “family” and in pairs they made four different »
In the past weekend Søren Pagter has been visiting Iceland to give a lecture and to work as the head judge at the judging of the Icelandic Picture of the Year. Søren Pagter lecturing at Nyherji in Reykjavik, Iceland. Picture by Oskar Pall Elfarsson. Friday the 16th, Søren Pagter gave a »
The photo blog Slate has published Arko Datto’s project S.A.D. about how to cope with seasonal depression when living in dark areas, like Denmark in the winther time. “My winter depressions started when I was 17. At first, I did not know what it was, but as the years passed by, I »
Earlier this evening the nominees for the Danish Picture of the Year were revealed, and again this year we are proud to have a lot of students among them. To be precise we have 12 students among the 36 nominees. From the 4th semester alone there are 7 nominees! Congratulations »
Friday the 19th we held the traditional project screening, where students from all semesters gather to share the work they’ve done during their final workshops. A great day where a lot of great stories and inspiring work was shown. As it has also become a tradition this final day is »
A picture by Kasper Palnsov has been selected by TImes Magazine as one of the top 100 pictures of the year 2014. People look at the carcass of the giraffe Marius after it was killed in Copenhagen Zoo. Picture by Kasper Palsnov. Kasper Palsnov did the picture while doing his »
The website Photographic Museum of Humanity is this month focussing on Danish photojournalism by showing five selected stories made by Danish photographers. Among the selected photographers are two DMJX projects: Beautiful Child by Lærke Posselt and Unspoken Legacy by Lars Just. Picture from the story Unspoken Leagcy by Lars Just. Lærke Posselt did her story »
Søren Pagter, head of the department of photojournalism, has been announced the head judge of the Icelandic Picture of the Year 2014. The Icelandic Press Photographers Association arranges the competition, which is divided into two groups: one for portrait, magazine, landscape and daily life + one for news, sports and series. »
