Almost five years ago Sofia Wraber and Nanna Kreutzmann made an extraordinary visual project during their final semester at DSMJ. The two photojournalists portrayed 101 men within a project period of four weeks. And it was not just 101 random men, it was one man representing each age from zero »
Our nine international students from the programme The Language of Photojournalism have just finished a three week magazine workshop where each of them have made a story including pictures, text and layout. The entire magazine Europe’s New Challenges is now available online and Friday the 15th of April at 1pm »
The Danish third term students have just finished a four week long reportage workshop with photographer Gregers Tycho from Jyllands-Posten. As it’s the tradition the students exhibit their reportage stories in the aula at DSMJ before applying for internships. We opened the exhibition this Friday and the following weeks the »
Wednesday the 6th of April Søren Pagter was lecturing at Göteborgs-Posten. The topic was online publishing and 50 members of the editoral staff attended the meeting – both members of the photo department and staff from the news room. Göteborg-Posten is one of those rare newspapers which hasn’t started making »
Wes Rowe, international student who graduated from DSMJ last year have won second prize in student photographer of the year in San Fransisco Bay Area. Wes Rowe submitted a portfolio with images made while studying at DSMJ. The winning portfolio is available here. »
Can you make an exhibition with around 13,000 portraits? Yes, you can. Every evening 13,000 unique children portraits are projected on the Red Fall monument in Randers. Head of the dep. of photojournalism, Søren Pagter, is one of the makers of the project – Børn i centrum (kids in focus). »
We are thrilled to announce that our site now has 50 active members and more than 200 projects online. Keep them comming! Before summer we’ll update the website with a great collection of links and a debate forum for the members. »
The recent number (no. 13 – 2011) of the Finnish magazine Photo Raw focusses on the Finnish Press Photo of the Year 2010. In the magazine there’s an interview with Aino Salmi, international student who won first prize in the category Photo Essay. Søren Pagter, jury member at the Finnish »
A readers’ meeting at Fyens Stiftstidende in Odense this afternoon focussed on photojournalism. The newspaper had invited Peter Hove and Asbørn Sand – both prize winning photographers at this years Press Photo of the Year – to show their pictures and tell about their work. Asbjørn Sand is currently doing »
This year we’ve received 260 applicants for the Danish BA programme. This is the highest number ever. Last year we had 213 applicants which was also a record. This week the applicants work on their first admission test. They have to make a series of images on the topic strength. »
What a great week! Last week was hectic and inspiring with a lot of guests and lectures at the school. Wednesday our own international student, Ahmed Hayman from Egypt, gave a lecture about his coverage of the events in Cairo in February. Since Ahmed has worked as a photojournalist both »
Friday evening at a party and award ceremony, Niels Christensen won the Foto-kravling for his project “Drengeliv” (boys’ lifes). The Foto-kravling is an award given by the student organisations from the three journalism educations in Denmark to honour excellent student projects. The jury were three photographers: Ole Steen, Thomas Lekfeldt »
These weeks photographer Mimi Chakarova from Berkeley University is visiting DSMJ. Tuesday the 22nd of March Mimi Chakarova gave a lecture about her prize winning documentary project, The Price of Sex and she’ll work with our 2nd term students evaluating some of their assignments. We’re lucky that Mimi Chakarova will »
This week you might bump into Marcus Bleasdale, VII, or Sigrid Nygaard, Information. They are both conducting workshops here. Sigrid is doing portraits with International-Photo I and Marcus is doing reportage with 8. Semester/International-Photo II. »
Yesterday evening in Helsinki the winners of the Finnish Press Photography of the Year 2010 were released. Two of our international students were among the winners: Aino Salmi won first prize in the category Photo Essay with a story about the young man Rick who lives alone in his flat »
Each year the student organisations from the three journalism educations in Denmark arrange a party and an award ceremony to celebrate excellent student projects. The prize is called Kravling. There’s two categories: one for journalism and one for photojournalism. This year the nominated for the Fotokravling are: Mette Frandsen – »
The recent edition of the photography magazine FILTER focusses on hybrids in photography. Among the articles in the magazine is one about the use of mixed media in photojournalism. The head of the Dep. of Photojournalism at DSMJ, Søren Pagter has been interviewed for this article. The article is available »
Today the winners of the Press Photography of the Year 2010 were announced at an Award Ceremony at the National Library in Copenhagen. Six of our students were among the nominated photographers – three of them won first prizes. The other three won honourable second prizes. Sports Reportage Sara Galbiati »
Today the winners of the Danish Press Photography of the Year 2010 were announced at an award ceremony at the National Library in Copenhagen. DSMJ sponsors prizes for two of the winning photographers in the competition. Ass. professor Mads Greve and Head of the Dep. of Photojournalism Søren Pagter motivated »
Informations Fotopris was today won by Sofie Amalie Klougart. The jury describes Sofie as a sensitive photojournalist, who is able to tell a story in way never seen before. The jury was especially impressed by her series from the annual meeting of Dansk Folkeparti. Second place was won by Morten »
