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Scandinavian photo agency Moment has announced three new members among them Lærke Posselt. Former student Thomas Lekfeldt is a long time member of the agency. See the announcement here. »

This weekend faculty teacher Mads Greve will visit Lithuania to speak and show his work at the 6th International Press Photo Festival/Vilnius Photo Circle in Vilnius. Saturday there will be lectures by four European photographers and in the evening the award ceremony of The Circle of Life contest will take »

Magnus Holm wins the final and most important category at cpoy – portfolio with a series of images from very different assignments. At this screencast, you can hear how the news was released by Rick Shaw to Magnus in the middle of the night. Congratulations, Magnus. »

The sixth gold medal to one of our students at this year’s cpoy has been given to: Marie Hald for her 7th semester project about the prostitute Bonnie. Marie Hald wins in the documentary category. In the same category Lærke Posselt wins bronze for her story about child beauty contests, »

The succes at cpoy continues: Magnus Holm has won gold in the category international pictures story with a series about homeless children in Kharkiv, Ukraine. And in the same category Tor Birk Trads has won Award of excellence with a series of Shia Muslims who commemorate the Day of Ashura »

This is going to be our most successful year at cpoy. Two more winners from yesterday’s judging: Gold for Nikolai Linares in the category Interpretive Project with a fashion series. And bronze for Andreas Beck in the same category with a series of portraits from the refugee camp jamam, Sudan. »

Tobias Nørgaard wins gold in cpoy for his series The Wild Boys. Tobias’ gold medal is in the category Domestic Picture Story. In the same category Asbjørn Sand is awarded an Award of Excellence for his story Roll Whatever. Both stories where earlier this year exhibited at the German Lumix »

Bjarke Bo Olsen has won gold in the category general news with a picture from the funeral of 18 year old Cem Aydin who was beaten to death near his home in Copenhagen. This is the second gold medal for our students at this year’s cpoy. »

More great news from the cpoy-judging: Magnus Holm has won Award of Excellence in the spot news category at cpoy. »

Cathrine Ertmann’s story “About Dying” is published in the recent edition of Positive Magazine. There’s a direct link to the story here. The story “About Dying” was made during Cathrine’s 7th semester at our school and has also been published in the French online magazine Le Journal de la Photographie. »

In an earlier post I wrote that Lærke Posselt won the bronze medal of the cpoy portrait category, but it turns out that the gold medal is also one of our students. Jeppe Bøje wins gold for the portrait above. Congratulations to Jeppe and Lærke. »

According to the cpoy screencast Lærke Posselt wins Bronze in the portrait category of copy. It is the third year in a row that Lærke is awarded a medal in this category. See the screencast here. »

Cecile Smetana Baudier’s series Waiting For a Boat to Europe shot in Morrocco is now online at Information’s Fotobloggen. See it here. »

While Sofie Amalie Klougart is attending the Joop Swart Masterclass organized by World Press Photo, Politiken is showing some of Sofie’s work at politiken.dk. Check it out here. »

Last week, Kasper Løftgaard won 1st prize in the feature category in Gaffa Photo Award 2012. Now, you can see Kasper’s winning story in this month’s eidtion of the music magazine Gaffa. The magazine is also available as e-paper (Kasper’s story is found at page 62). The wining series of »

Martin Errichiello’s final diploma project, “ARCIPELAGHI”, is beeing shown at four festivals this November. “ARCIPELAGHI” is a personal story about a friend, Mohamed, who crossed the Mediterranean Sea for a better life. The film tells about human migration by tracing the paths of identification. It’s an intimate portrait of Mohamed, »

Our webmaster, Sofus Comer, has redesigned danishphotojournalism.com for all mobile devices. This gives the users a much better navigation when they’re viewing our website from I-pads, mobile phones etc. Now they can easily browse through the picture stories, watch the books and magazines etc. Try it out yourself.Android, IOS »

For the past four weeks our Danish second term students have participated in the traditional magazine workshop. The group of eight students went to the holiday resort, Lalandia, in the south of Denmark. They came back with eight individual stories telling about the people and the place. Today, the magazine »

Kaspar Løftgaard has been awarded 1st place in the feature category in Gaffa Photo Award 2012. Check it out here. »

Tonje Eliasson graduated in the autumn 2010 with her diploma project, Fyrre Tønder Land about Thylejren – a hippie community in the north of Jutland. November 1th her website www.fyrretonderland.dk will be launched – an interactive site showing the work made between autumn 2010 and the late summe 2012. »