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 »
What a day for Lærke Posselt. First she won first prize in World Press Photo and tonight she has won first prize again. This time in the singles portrait category at POYI. The news is not online at POYI website yet, but the judging is open and can be followed »
It’s just been announced that Lærke Posselt, Danish student at her final semester, have won first prize in the portrait category at the World Press Photo 2012. Lærke Posselt wins with a portrait of the 27-year-old Iranian-born actress Mellica Mehraban who grew up in Denmark, but debuted as an actor »
Nikolai Linares, currently working on his final BA project, is nominated for the Student Focus competition launched by the World Photography Organisation. Each year the World Photography Organisation invites hundreds of universities and schools of photography around the world to participate in the Student Focus competition. Each institution selects one »
Today at the ceremony for the graduating photojournalists Astrid Dalum was awarded the Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA project. Astrid’s project Jeg er kvinde (I am woman) explores women and their relation to their bodies. “The portraits contains a vulnerability and it takes credibility and empathy to make the »
Ahmed Hayman has today won first prize in the story category at the Egypt Press Photo Awards 2011 with a series of pictures that he made for his diploma project. The winning pictures can be seen at Ahmed’s facebook site. Ahmed Hayman has been studying at DSMJ for two semesters »
Amy Johansson, international student who graduated her Diploma project in December 2011, is nominated for the Swedish POY. The winners will be announced at the award ceremony in Malmö on the 16th March. »
The recent edition of the Spanish magazine Piel de Foto have published three stories with connection to our school. – Nicolai Linares’ story Dreams of a New Cairo is shown over three spreads. Nicolai has finished his final workshops in 2011 and in 2012 he’s going to make his final »
Yesterday, the jury of the Danish POY released the names of the nominated photographers from the Danish POY 2011. The list included six students from our school: Liv Høybye Jeppesen, currently doing her intern at Jyllands-Posten. Christian Klindt Sølbeck, who will graduate this January. Dennis Lehmann, currently doing his intern »
The television portrait about James Njuguna is now available online on TV2’s website. The story starts appoximately 17,40 minutes in the news boradcast. »
Former international student Nina Weymann-Schulz, Germany, has a five spread story in the January/February edition of the German magazine PROFIFOTO. The published story consists of vertical pictures from Chinatown in New York and it was made as a Visual Project while Nina was studying at DSMJ in the spring 2011. »
Second term student Simon Bruun Fals have won the overall prize at Mimosa’s 100 years anniversery photo competition. The prize was a Fuji FinePix X100 camera. »
