Fares Zaitoon graduated from DMJX in the spring 2021 with his project “Stranger Tourist”, that also received honorable mention and a grant at the ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award for graduating DMJX students. The grant has now made it possible for Fares Zaitoon to put up a show at Darb 1718 Contemporary Art »
Wednesday evening, the Photo I students finished their magazine that includes their final projects. The magazine will be on display at DMJX and can be read online here. The magazine is made by ten international students of photojournalism during a six-week workshop at the Danish School of Media and Journalism »
DMJX alumni Mikkel Hørlyck is exhibiting part of his long-term project “Jørgen, a Mystery” at Copenhagen Photo Festival as part of The FUTURES 2023 Talents. »
As part of the opening of the Copenhagen Photo Festival, DMJX students participated in port folio reviews and talks arranged by Futures Photography Platform. »
Hundreds of people joined the opening of the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2023, Thursday, June 1st at Refshaleøen. See images from the opening of the DMJX exhibition “Relations” made by our fourth term students. The ten stories at the exhibition are:Axel Emil Hammerbo – “Young People Take Up Climate Responsibility”Benjamin Voldum Krog – »
The Contemporary African Photography Prize has announced the 25 projects shortlisted for the CAP Prize 2023. Lamees Saleh and Mohamed Mahdy are among the shortlisted photographers with their final DMJX projects. The five winners of the CAP Prize will be announced on July, 7 2023 at Podesata Photobook Fair during »
Fourth term student Maria Høy Hansen is among the shortlisted photographers in the student category for the World Report Award 2023 at Festival della Fotografia Etica. Maria Høy Hansen has been shortlisted with her story “Temporary Placement”, which she made this spring during her fourth term at DMJX. “Temporary Placement” »
Our fourth term students will represent DMJX at Copenhagen Photo Festival 2023 with a group exhibition consisting of 10 individual stories. The exhibition opens tomorrow, the 1st June at 4pm. DMJX Photojournalism presents the group exhibition “Relations” at Copenhagen Photo Festival 2023, Refshaleøen, from June 1st till 11th. The photo »
We’re happy to announce that 17 students from 15 different countries have been selected to study at our international programmes in the fall 2023. This fall five students will receive full scholarships from The ECCA Family Foundation and one student will receive a grant from Erasmus+ to be able to »
Aku Ratsula and Conor Courtney has been awarded platinium for their video documentary “The Last Line” in The New Talent Awards at Graphis Competitions. The Graphis New Talent Annual features work from students from across the world. Platinum Awards are the highest honor in the New Talent competition, and students’ »
Friday the 12th of May, Mohamed Mahdy received his two prizes at the award ceremony of the World Press Photo 2023 at De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, where this year’s exhibition opened on the same day. Mohamed Mahdy won in the Open Category at World Press Photo 2023 with his interactive »
Two days in a row in April 2023, Søren Pagter was interviewed for “Kulturen på P1” in DR – the national Danish Radio. The interview about AI-generated images can be heard here. The interview about World Press Photo 2023 winner can be heard here. »
Mikkel Hørlyck is exhibiting 14 pictures from his BA-project No Man’s Land at the gallery Cascina Roma Fotografia in Milan. »
On the 29th of March, Mohamed Mahdy was announced as the winner of World Press Photo 2023 in the Africa region. Mohamed Mahdy won in the Open Category with his interactive project “Here, The Doors Don’t Know Me”. Today, it was announced that he is also the Global winner. Since »
Wednesday the 5th of April, Søren Pagter was a guest in the live talk-show “Degn’s Saloon” that was held for the first time in the town of Randers. The head of the photojournalism programmes was interviewed about his view on documentary photography and his work teaching at DMJX. »
Mohamed Mahdy, a former student from DMJX’s international photo programme, wins one of the regional awards at the World Press Photo for his photo project about Egyptians being displaced from housing in urban development areas. By Christopher Bering Baden Since 2015, in collaboration with local residents, Mohamed Mahdy has documented »
Sahl Abdelrahman has won first prize in the story category at the Egypt Press Photo 2022 with his story about children working in the agricultural sector in Fayoum Governorate, Egypt. Sahl started the story as his final project during the DEDI/DMJX educational programme that ran in November/December 2021 and in »
Since Salih Basheer has published his book “22 Days in Between”, the project has been the subject to much attention around the World. Here’s a short update. Exhibition at Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar Book launch at Gallery Image, Friday the 3rd of March Reviews »
Simon Gerlinger‘s photographic essay “About Love” has been published in three different German magazines and soon Simon will launch a book with the project that he started as his final Diploma Project at DMJX in the fall 2021. In his project statement, Simon writes: “In intimate portraits of couples, I »
Friday the 10th of March, the international Photo 1 and the Danish second term students finished their first course of the spring term with a mutual exhibition where the 20 students showed their short documentary assignments. »
