New book by Mads Greve

Blind Date from Mads Greve on Vimeo. Friday last week faculty teacher Mads Greve released a new book in cooperation with Publishing House Ajour in Denmark and Postcart in Italy. The book is a photographic essay about a time in life where the past had suddenly ceased to exist and the »

International magazine launch

Today, our great international students have finished their magazine made during a magazine workshop with Lars Bertelsen, Lone Theils, Susse Sommer and Henrik Meller. The magazine was launched at a reception in the school’s aula and is now available online, too. The students behind the magazine are: Mario Wezel, GermanyKristen »

Søren Pagter lectures at the Public University

Tomorrow, Monday the 22 of October Søren Pagter will lecture at the public university, Ny Munkegade 118, 8000 Aarhus C. The lecture is called Understand Photography, will be in Danish and starts at 17.15. Søren Pagter’s lecture will be the first in a series of six lectures about photography. The »

Cathrine Ertmann in Le Journal de la Photographie

Cathrine Ertmann‘s 7th term project About Dying is shown in this Friday’s edition of the French online magazine Le Journal de la Photographie. The articles in the magazine are available in French and English. Cathrine Ertmann is currently on exchange at ICP in New York, where she’s doing her 8th »

Reportage exhibition at the school

Our third term students have just finished their reportageworkshop and from today they’ll exhibit their work in the aula at the school. The exhibition opens with a small reception at 1:30 pm today, Friday. The students have worked for almost three weeks on their stories, which are very diverse in »

Søren Pagter in Lithuanian photo jury

Søren Pagter will be a part of the jury for the Vilnius Photo Circle Festival and is right now judging the contributed work from aorund 100 photographers. The Vilnius Photo Circle Festival is an international photo festival arranged by the The Lithuanian Press Photographers Club. The festival will run in »

Sisse Stroyer has succes with her visual project

Back in the spring 2010 Sisse Stroyer made her visuel project Sexting while studying at the 8th semester. A project where she collected people’s private images made and sent by mobil phones. Since her graduation Sisse Stroyer has continued to work with the phenomenon sexting. And right now her project »

Klougart and Greve at Kulturnatten

Among photographers such as Anders Petersen, Jacob Aue Sobol, Joakim Eskildsen and others Sofie Amaile Klougart and faculty teacher Mads Greve will show projects at Kulturnatten in Copenhagen Friday October 12. The theme of this year’s screening is Scandinavian Photography. Sofie is showing Gården i midten, which she did on »

Sakari Piippo wins Young Press Photographer of the Year

Sakari Piippo, international student from Finland, who studied at DMJX this spring, has won Young Press Photographer of the Year in Finland. The prize is given by the The Finnish Press Photographers’ Association and the association said in their motivation for the prize: “Piippo has a ability to think, to »

Maria Fonfara releases book

Maria Fonfara graduated in 2009 with her BA-project about love and sexuality among elderly people. Back then her project recieved the Scanpix prize for the best photojournalism project. Maria Fonfara continued to work on the project and in 2011 she exhibited the pictures at the Copenhagen Photo Festival. Yesterday, Maria »

Jeannette Pardorf’s BA at Fåborg Museum

Jeannette Pardorf graduated back in 2008 with her book project “The King of India – and all the others from the brewery in Valby”. After her graduation the book with stories from the old Carlsberg brewery were published. Now you can see the portraits of the brewery workers at an »

Søren Pagter in St. Petersburg

Søren Pagter is currently in St. Petersburg, Russia to plan a master class for young North West Russian photographers. The master class will start in April 2013 and the participants will meet both in Denmark and in Russia. Their work will be from Russia and the outcome will hopefully be »

Get ready for CPOY

The world’s largest and most prestigious photo competition for students – College Photographer of the Year – calls for entries. Deadline is Sunday the 7th of October. Last year was a great succes for our school. We had winners in 9 out of the 13 still photo categories. Our students »

Mette Frandsen in BURN Magazine

Mette Frandsen’s BA project, Sin City, from 2010 is published in BURN magazine right now. Mette Frandsen portrayed by Melissa Ønstrup. Mette Frandsen graduated in autumn 2010 with her project Sin City from Las Vegas and in 2011 she won the Scanpix prize for best BA-project and second prize in »

Søren Pagter in Jyllands-Posten

Yesterday, Monday the 18th of September Søren Pagter was portayed in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The article is a part of a series of portraits about people who will teach at the people’s university this autumn and winther. »

Danish photojournalism in German Fotomagazine

In the August edition of the German “Fotomagazin”, the magazine ran a big article about Danish photojournalism under the title “Dänemarks Schule der Stars” – Denmark’s School of Stars. The magazine presents former and present students from our school: Lærke Posselt, Nikolai Linares, Morten Gemrund and Mads Nissen. And Søren »

Mads Greve in Perpignan

Mads Greve, faculty teacher in photojournalism, is participating at Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan this week. Mads Greve is conducting an in-service workshop for Danish photographers. The participants will meet with a lot of the exhibiting photographers in Perpignan and get an unique insight in their work and thoughts. It’s »

Kent Klich welcomes the students

Monday, next week, all the students of photojournalism are at the school. This is almost the only time during the whole semester that everybody is present at the same time. Therefore we’ll arrange a mutual welcome for everybody with a lecture by photographer Kent Klich. We’re looking forward to seeing »

Mathias Christensen exhibits at the National Museum

Mathias Christensen, Danish final year student, exhibits two stories about North American Indians at the National Museum in Copenhagen. The first story is about the living conditions in the Crow Creek reservation. The other story is a b/w series from a pow wow dance festival. This story will also be »