This weekend, Lærke Posselt, first prize winner in the portrait category at World Press Photo, participated in the Award Days in Amsterdam. The Winners’ reception in Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. Lærke Posselt and the other Danish winner, Jan Dagø, with their personalized cataloques. Each winner gets a cataloque with his »
World Press Photo announced earlier today the selected young photographers for this years’ Joop Swart Masterclass. Among them was Sofie Amalie Klougart who is currently doing her 7th semester. The masterclass will be held in Amsterdam in November. The theme of the masterclass is Trust. Sofie was chose among 165 »
This weekend the World Press Photo award days are held in Amsterdam – Two days of presentations made by the winning photographers. Plus, of course, the award ceremony and the opening of the official World Press Photo exhibition in Oude Kerk. Lærke Posselt, student in her final year and first »
These weeks we’re assessing the applicants for both the Danish BA-education and for the two international programmes. And once again we have had a record high number of highly qualified candidates. 273 candidates enrolled for the admission test for the Danish BA-education. 177 of them fulfilled the first one-week test »
Yesterday, Søren Pagter met with the minister for development cooperation, Christian Friis Bach, to tell about the cooperation with photo.circle in Nepal. The meeting was a part of the ministers visit in Aarhus where he was introduced to different developing projects around the world. Søren Pagter talked about the many »
Today two groups of students exhibited their work in the aula at DMJX: The eight Danish students from third semester exhibit pictures and stories from their reportage workshop. And the prints are big and really catches the eyes of everybody passing by in the aula. The ten international students have »
Today, the Lumix Festival released the projects that will be shown at the festival this year: 60 printed stories and 22 mulitmedia stories. Among the names were five students and student projects from DMJX: Sara Galbiati, who graduated in 2010, will exhibit her final BA project Lucha Libre about Mexican »
Two students of photojournalism won at the Kravling award ceremony yesterday. Tobias Selnæs Markussen won the prize for the best photojournalistic student project with his story Autopia. Autopia tells about the car culture in the USA and is Tobias’ final BA-project from 2011. Cathrine Ertmann won together with a group »
At the Swedish POY 2012 award cermony today in Malmö Amy Johansson won a second prize in the multimedia category. Amy won with the story 88 1/2 about the american filmmaker Jack O’Connell – a story she made as her final Diploma Project at the school in 2011. »
Would you like to exhibit your work at the Copenhagen Photo Festival in June 2012 – and thereby promote our photojournalism education? We have been offered space at the photo festival and we will use it to show some of the most interesting work made at the Danish School of »
Sunday the 4th of March Politiken publshed a two pages layout showing Astrid Dalums BA-project called I’m a Woman. The story is also available online at politiken.dk. »
At the award ceremony for the Danish POY at The National Library in Copenhagen today three students were awarded a first prize and additional three students won honorable second prizes. Tobias Nørgaard Pedersen won first prize in the category Reportage, Denmark for a story about the PlayStation Proletariat, a group »
Louise Leth-Espensen, Nikolai Linares and Tobias Selnæs Markussen have been nominated for this year’s Kravling Prize in photojournalism. Louise has been nominated for her project An Unthinkable Love about the relationship between two men. Nikolai has been nominated for his personal project about becoming a father called When You’re Having »
Tomorrow, Friday the 22nd of February the TV2 programme Go’ Aften Østjylland will broadcast an interview with Søren Pagter. The interview will focus on how to educate photojournalists and the succes of Danish photojournalism. The background for the interview is the anniversery of the Danish Press Photographers’ Association and the »
Berlingske online TV shows an almost four minutes long interview with Morten Germund, who recently won second prize in the category Newspaper Photographer of the Year in POYI. Morten Germund did his internship at Berlingske Media and won at POYI with a portfolio from his time at the newspaper. Right »
Again one of our students are among the final contesters in POYi. Last night Nikolai Linares was awarded Award Of Exellence in Sport Picture Story for the story “The Road to Defeat” about the icehockey team Rødovre Mighty Bulls. »
Tomorrow, Friday the 17th, the Danish national radio broadcasts a one hour programme about photojournalism. The programme Mennesker og Medier will focus on the 100 year anniversery of the Danish Press Photographers Union, the ongoing debate about credibiity in photojournalism and on the prize winning Danish photojournalists. Lærke Posselt will »
With this headline the website from the Danish School of Media and Journalism tells about Morten Germunds amazing second prize in the category Newspaper Photographer of the year in POYI. And about Lærke Posselt’s two first prizes in WPP and CPOY. Read it here. »
Lærke Posselt, who won two first prizes at both WPP and POYI, will be in national television tomorrow. First she’ll be interviewed in the morning programme Go’ Morgen Danmark on TV2. This programme starts at 6:30 am and will be repeated during the morning. The interview is also available online. »
Morten Gemrund, who has just returned to 7th semester after his internship at Belingske, has won second prize in the category Newspaper Photographer of the Year in POYI. Morten Germund wins with a portfolio of pictures made during his internship – Amazing. From the story Shadow City, Mumbai, which is »
