Mathias Eis and Frederik Danielsen are among the five young talents selected from 90 applications for FUTURES Nordic Talents 2024 by the Copenhagen Photo Festival. Mathias Eis has been selected based on his project “Are we nearly there, yet”, exploring life at the 148 rest stops along the Danish highways. »
Mohamed Mahdy is one of the three photographers selected for the Photography Prize of the Fondation des Treilles. Since 2015, in collaboration with local residents, Mohamed Mahdy has documented how inhabitants are suffering from the rapid urban development in Alexandria, Egypt. One of the chapters was added to the photo project »
Christian Falck Wolff, graduate from DMJX this January 2024, was announced winner of the Danish Picture of the Year 2023 at the award ceremony at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Friday March 1. The Danish Picture of the Year is organized by Pressefotografforbundet (The Danish Press Photographers’ Association) and the exhibition can »
Friday the 1st of March, the award ceremony for the Danish Picture of the Year was held at The Black Diamond, The Royal Library in Copenhagen.Three photojournalist students won four first prizes and four photojournalist students won second prizes. One photojournalist alumnus won Long Term Project of the year with »
Owen Ziliak has won third place in the science category at NPPA 2024 Best of Photojournalism with an image made during his exchange study at DMJX. Owen Ziliak made the picture in the spring 2023 while producing a video documentary about the bird watchers in Skagen together with his fellow »
DMJX held two open school events last week for applicants for one of our Danish educational programmes. If you want to apply for the Danish BA in Photojournalism, you can learn more and apply through the official DMJX webpage. »
Last week from February 20 to 22, DMJX Photojournalism held three different guest lectures – two for all our students and one to prepare our fourth term students for their long documentary project. »
Monday, February 19, Søren Pagter held a talk about AI and documentary photography for 60 photographers at Fotografisk Salon, Aarhus. »
Sergei Stroitelev‘s personal book-project I Wish it Was Just a Nightmare made at DMJX in the fall 2022 has been published by Experimental. The photobook I Wish it Was Just a Nightmare delves into the harrowing aftermath of the war in Ukraine, ignited by Russia’s aggression in 2022. Fleeing censorship, »
Søren Pagter was interviewed for Kulturen at the national Danish radio channel P1, today. The focus for the interview was the difficulties in photographing climate stories and the fact that three out of the five single pictures nominated for the Danish Press Photo of the Year cover climate issues. You »
Lamees Saleh Sharf El Din is among the 15 selectees for Copenhagen Photo Festival 2024. Lamees is selected on behalf of her project “Indefinitely” that she made during our Egyptian Language of Photojournalism programme that was held in co-operation with DEDI – The Danish Egyptian Dialogue Initiative. Lamees Saleh Sharf »
Amelie Sachs‘ book project Vergissmeinnicht is among the five winners of The Dummy Award 2023. The personal project started and the first dummy was made during Amelie’s study at DMJX in the spring 2021. Amelie Sachs studied at Photo 2 in the spring 2021 and here she started the project »
Firday, February 2 all photojournalism students gathered for a full day of lectures and social events. »
The German podcast GATE7 have published a 50 minutes conversation in English with Søren Pagter, where he talks about his book The Essential Image and his philosophy of documentary photography. »
Sefa Eyol has won bronze in the category Editorial/Conflict at Tokyo International Foto Awards The winning image is part of Sefa’s project “The Costs of Freedom” – a reportage project about the struggle of the Ukrainian people during the Russian attack at their nation. The project is made between April »
At the graduation ceremony on January 25, Christian Falck Wolff received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for the best photojournalistic BA-project for his project “Djævlens værk”. »
During the weekend January 20 and 21, Mads Greve have been in Stockholm to judge “Årets Bild” – the Swedish POY. »
Shrouk Ghonim has won a second prize in the category “Daliy Life Outside Egypt” at the Egypt Press Photo. »
The nominees for the Danish Picture of the Year are out. Among the total of 28 nominees are seven DMJX students. Congratulations to Emilie Toldam Futtrup, Sigrid Ellesøe Nielsen, Thea Tønnesvang, Rosaline Ben-baruch Lange, Axel Emil Hammerbo, Benjamin Voldum Krog and Christian Falck Wolff. 118 photographers have submitted 2173 pictures »
On one of the last days of 2023, Friday December 29, Nichlas Pollier was interviewed for “Go’ Aften Live” at the Danish broadcast channel TV2. The interview can be seen 10 minutes into the programme at this link, if you subscribe to TV2. »
