God’s miracle on fourth floor

STILL PICTURE STORYby Rikke Kjær Poulsen – made in the fall 2020 during her third term at DMJX. The project tells the story of Stella, and the uncertain life of being an asylum seeker in Larnaca, Cyprus. It shows how an apartmant contributes to feeling adult and independent again, how »

Sleepless

STILL PICTURE STORY by Liv Møller Kastrup – made in the fall 2020 during her third term at DMJX. The night can feel long, when we’re not able to fall asleep. Time stands still, and the darkness surrounds us. Five young people, who all suffer from insomnia, are living proof »

Trending plastic in Lebanon

STILL PICTURE STORY by Emilie Lærke Henriksen – made in the fall 2019 during her third term at DMJX. In Lebanon women aim for eternal youth and it is important to look fresh and sexy. Plastic surgery has therefore become a natural part of being a woman. About 1.5 million »

Green Gold

STILL PICTURE STORY by Valdemar Stroe Ren and Jesper Houborg – made in the fall 2019 during third term at DMJX. Illigal logging in Romania, 2019. Romania is home to the largest virgin forests in Europe, but during the last 30 years, it has been abused fiercely. Ever since the »

Prison is a Way out of Poverty

STILL PICTURE STORY by Marius Renner Christensen – made in the fall 2019 during his third term at DMJX. Like other young men Bangis and Mohammed have dreams for their future. But in the least developed country in the world the way from dream to reality is hard to pave. »

May I have this Dance?

STILL PICTURE STORY by Shirin Abedi – made in the spring 2019 as her final Photo Story during Photo I at DMJX. In a long red dress with a small crown in her hair, Mojdeh dances in front of a red curtain in the cheer of a female audience in »

No one could catch me

STILL PICTURE STORY by Tobias Kobborg Kristensen – made in the fall 2018 during his third term at DMJX. 18-year-old Cornelius Kemboi attends Saints Patrick’s High School in Iten, following in the footsteps of star runners like David Rudisha and Wilson Kipketer. Cornelius dreams of becoming a champion and raise »

A Boys Home in Nuuk

STILL PICTURE STORY by Oscar Scott Carl – made in the fall 2018 during his third term at DMJX. Six neglected Greenlandic boys have found a safe home at an orphanage called “Kaassassuk” in Nuuk. The red and white house is filled with both hugging and anger, but most of »

EPA Sweden

STILL PICTURE STORY by Benjamin Nørskov – made during his 7th and 8th term in 2018. In the rural parts of Sweden, teenage boys and girls, age 15 to 17 take advantage of a loophole in the Swedish law, that makes it legal to drive a car, if it can »

An Elegy for the Death of Hamun

STILL PICTURE STORY by Hashem Shakeri – made as his final project during Photo I in the spring 2018. As the largest province of the country, Sistan and Baluchestan is located in the southeast of Iran and it shares borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan. Once a forest in the distant »

I never realized

STILL PICTURE STORY by Anna-Tia Buss made as her final project during Photo I in the spring 2018. A collection of stories from women about their relationship to their own bodies in regards to beauty standards. The intimate battles women are fighting with their bodies are often triggered by comments, »

Heart of a Seal

STILL PICTURE STORY by Lukas Kreibig – made in the fall 2017 as his final project during our Photo I programme. Nature dictates the rhythm of life in the mountain village of Uummannaq, an island off the coast of Greenland. Living off the grid, the Inuit inhabitants have always relied »

Coastland

STILL PICTURE STORY by Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann – made as their final BA project in 2017. In Denmark we never find ourselves farther than 50 kilometers from the ocean and the coastline remains a deeply ingrained part of Danish identity. It is a work place, a sanctuary, a »

Banned Beauty

STILL PICTURE STORY by Heba Khamis – made in the fall 2016 as her final Diploma Project at DMJX. In Cameroon early marriage, teenage motherhood and rape are common experiences for many girls and women. Girls reach puberty much earlier than the age at which they usually marry. One out »

The Neglected

STILL PICTURE STORY by Mikkel Hørlyck – made during a third term reportage workshop at DMJX in the fall 2016. The orphanage in the city of Orhei in Moldova is the residence of some 200 boys and men, who are physically or mentally disabled. Moldova is the poorest country in »