Faculty teacher and head of the Department for Photojournalism, Søren Pagter, has been appointed to the jury of the Finnish Press Photo of the Year 2010. The three persons jury will meet in the middle of January to select the best pictures made by Finnish photographers in 2010. The winners »
Facuty teacher Mads Greve will be in the jury for the Danish Press Photo of the Year 2010. Mads Greve will be judging the still picture category together with four other jury members: – Christiane Breustedt, former editor from GEO magazine. – Leif Davidsen, journalist og writer. – Lars Krabbe, »
Today the international students from the Advanced class had their final exams with an externatal examinator. In the afternoon we held a reception saying goodbye to all the international students who have studied with us in this autumn. Luckily a lot of them will stay and continue in the Advanced »
The winther editon of the photo magazine Private presents two diploma projects made by international students from DSMJ. Antonia Zennaro shows her story Down There about the Reeperbahn district in Hamburg. And Lene Münch shows her story The Secret World of Fraternities about the culture and traditions of German fraternities. »
Sorry! Our website has been down for the past 24 hours, but now we’re back again. The domain name www.danishphotojournalism.dk has been working all the time. »
Dennis Lehmann, Danish student of photojournalism, is a part of a team of three DSMJ-students who won third prize at Danidas World Picture Competition. Together with the journalist students Nola Grace Gaardmand and Timothy K. Ahrensbach, Dennis won with the story “Home of the golden gays”. The movie will be »
Every year we welcome a lot of international students for our two international courses. This creates an international atmosphere here in Århus. But our Danish students also go abroad to work as exchange students around the world. This semester we have two students at Pathshala in Dhaka, Bangladesh and one »
Our Danish second term students have launched their magazine made during a magazine workshop these past three weeks. All the stories in the magazine are from the Danish holiday island, Bornholm – The students visited the island for one week outside the tourist season. You can browse through the magazine »
Again today a student from the Danish School of Media and Journalism wins at cpoy. This time Asbjørn Skovkjær Sand, who won Award of Excellence three days ago, wins gold in the category Pictorial. Asbjørn is doing his internship at Fyens Stiftstidende. The winning photo is from a project Asbjørn did »
Two more Award of Excellences today: Cathrine Ertmann, who is in her internship at Jyllands-Posten, and Nikolai Linares , who is doing his intern at Berlingske Tidende, both won in the category domestic picture story today. You can check out Cathrine’s winning story here or below. And Nikolai’s story here. »
Lærke Posselt who is doing her internship at Politiken has won silver in the portrait category at CPOY. The winning picture shows the Danish writer and filmmaker Jørgen Leth, who lost his home after the earthquake in Haiti. »
Asbjørn Skovkjær Sand, intern at Fyens Stiftstidende, wins Award of Excellence in the Sports Feature category in cpoy. See the photo here. »
On our third semester we have a four week workshop where photojournalists and writing journalists cooperate on making reportage and portrait stories from Denmark. This autumn two students, journalist Lotte Ørum Rystedt and photographer Gorm Olesen, made a reportage about hunters on one of the first early mornings of the »
The nine international students from The Language of Photojournalism have launched their magazine made during a three week magazine workshop. The stories in the magazine addresses different challenges of Europe – for instance Romas in Romania, drug addicts in Denmark, struggling with cancer in Norway and other interesting issues. »
Three students were awarded in the Gaffa Photo Award 2010 yesterday. Mie Brinkmann won 1st prize in the Portrait category with the above photo of Soho Rezanejad, and in the Feature category Dennis Lehmann won 2nd prize and Nikolai Linares won 3rd prize. Mie’s photo was shot on an assignment on »
This past week faculty teachers Mads Greve and Søren Pagter have been going through the applications for our two international courses – The Language of Photojournalism and Advanced Visual Story Telling. This year we’ve recieved the highest number of applicants ever and on top on that: a very qualified selection »
This week our Danish third semester students are on a Tour-de-internship. The system for finding the right work practise is rather unique. All the (in this case nine) students of photojournalism visit all the media which have a vacancy. The students have the possibliity to learn about the media and »
After a couple of intense workshop weeks the Danish and international students are ready to work on their final projects. The students at their final semester will from now till Christmas work on each their project – the Danish students will make their BA-projects and the international students will make »
Just before summer student of photojournalism Uffe Frandsen won the Danish part of the Prize for Journalism awarded by the EU Parliament (EPPJ Award). The story about the closing down of the Lithuanian powerplant, Ignalina was made with his writing college Steffen Stubager – both working for Jyllands-Posten at that »
Next week faculty teacher Søren Pagter will be in Nepal in order to establish a co-operation with the Nepalese photo organisation photoCircle. The purpose is to create activities within the next two till three years that’ll develop Nepalese photographers. Hopefully the connection to Nepal and PhotoCircle will grow so that »
