The Danish POY exhibition has started it’s tour around Denmark. First stop is Aarhus where the mayor opened the exhibition at the arts museum ArOS, yesterday. In his opening speech the mayor, Jacob Bundsgaard, praised DMJX and especially it’s photojournalism students for making world class photojournalism. He honoured the five »
After the announcement of Marie Hald’s winning picture, yesterday, the news is in all the media today. Marie Hald receiving the applause from her fellow colleagues. Picture by Søren Pagter. Every newspaper brings the picture of the year and the story about a student winning this title. In Poltiken all »
What a fantastic ending of the award ceremony at the Danish POY, today. Marie Hald won the most prestigious prize of them all, when she at the prize ceremony in the National Library was awarded the Picture of the Year 2012. Picture by Marie Hald Marie Hald won with a »
Three 7th semester projects won three of the main reportage categories today at the award ceremony for the Danish POY. Picture by Sofie Amalie Klougart Sofie Amalie Klougart won first prize in the Open Category with her story about swinger clubs in Denmark. This story is also made as a »
Yesterday, more than 500 people visited our school at the yearly open school event, where interested people and future applicants can hear about our many different programmes and meet the students working with all different kind of medias. Almost 100 of the guests visited the department of photojournalism to receive »
Jonathan Grevsen’s BA-project, made in the autumn 2012, is in Politiken this Sunday the 24th of February. The project is called “Når Lykken Forsvinder” (When Happiness Disappears) and is about the people living in the very first apartment building on Amager in Copenhagen. The building called “Lykken” will be torn »
Sunday the 17th of february Politiken published the pictures from Mie Brinkmann’s seventh semester project made in the autumn 2012. The pictures are published together with articles about women working as prostitutes in Denmark – written by the journalist Frauke Giebner. The different chapters are also available online at Politiken.dk. »
World Press Photo announced this years’ winners today including four Danish photographers. Among them Marie Hald who won a 2nd prize singles in Observed Portraits (photo above). Marie is on the 8th semester and the portrait of Bonnie from Marie’s series Bonnie was shot while Marie was on the 7th »
Judging at the 70th POY has begun and the first day brought an Award of Excellence for Lasse Mejlvang in the Feature category. Lasse’s photo is from Smokey Mountain in Manila, the Philippines. Smokey Mountain, a landfill site, has become home for more than 5,000 families. They have built their own houses »
Today, at the graduation ceremony Morten Germund received the Scanpix Prize for the best photojournalistic BA-project. Morten Germund received the prize for his project Bring Me Home, Ohio about JC og his three adopted sons Jimmy, Robert og Dylan. Each semester the picture agency Scanpix hands out a prize for »
Tonight, the jury launched the names of the photographers nominated at this year’s Danish POY. Among the 26 nominated photographers are five students: – Sofie Amalie Klougart, final year student who are planning to do her BA this spring. – Lærke Posselt, final year student who need to make her »
Today, on the last day of the autumn semester at DMJX, we’re having a full day of project screening. All students from all semesters show their work made on the final workshops this year – starting with work made by second term Danish students and ending with the final Diploma »
Lærke Posselt’s project Beautiful Child produced on her 7th semester is awarded a 4th prize at Unicef photo of the year. More info here. »
New York Times’ Lensblog publishes photos from Jeppe Bøje’s bachelor project about the French town of Lourdes. See Lensblog here. »
Today Danish daily Information publish Marie Hald’s story about Bonnie who is a mother and a prostitute. The story is also online. Read it here and see the Marie’s work here. Last month Marie was awarded the gold medal of the Documentary category in cpoy for this story. »
The magazine Journalisten has asked Søren Pagter, head of the Department of Photojournalism, to comment on Times’ Best Photojournalism 2012 selection. You can read the interview (in Danish) with Søren Pagter on here on Journalisten.dk. »
Faculty teacher Mads Greve’s book Blind Date was published by Postcart Edizioni in Rome, Italy, last month, and now Mads is visiting Italy for book presentations in Rome and Milan. In Milan on December 8 Mads will show photos and have a conversation with Emanuela Mirabelli, photo editor of Marie »
As the last thing before beginning the project which finishes the first year in school the Danish 2nd semester finished a portrait workshop last week. Three weeks of only shooting portraits gave some nice photos. Here is a few examples. Photo above by Peter Jørgensen. Photo below by Jonas Fogh. »
Saturday Politiken had an interview with Sofie Amalie Klougart about her photos of swingers which was made for the Joop Swart Masterclass. The interview (in Danish) is also online. You can find it here and see photos here. And there’s also interviews with master class photographers at the World Press »
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. »
