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. »
Friday the 3rd of March the award ceremony for the Danish POY 2022 was held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen. Eight DMJX students were nominated beforehand, and four projects won first prizes and two received second prizes. On top of that, three students had pictures selected for the touring »
The Copenhagen Photo Festival has announced the solo artists and Futures 2023 talents for this year’s festival. DMJX alumni Mikkel Hørlyck has been selected for The FUTURES 2023 Talents with his story “Jørgen, a Mystery”. As part of the European platform FUTURES Photography, Copenhagen Photo Festival each year get to »
Our Danish fourth term students have had a short workshop in studio flash with guest lecturer and photographer Rune Pedersen. Among other exercises, the students worked a full day making portraits of young actors playing various roles. »
This week, DMJX held open school, where interested applicants could learn about all our educations. The photojournalism education was represented both at our campus in Copenhagen and of course at our campus in Aarhus.Read more about the application process here. »
Back to Raw, the third edition of Cairo Photo Week organized by Photopia is running right now downtown Cairo, Egypt. DMJX students and their projects are part of the huge festival. During Cairo Photo Week, three DMJX alumni Heba Khamis, Mohamed Mahdy and Fares Zaitoon were part of a panel »
Back in 2015, Betina Garcia was doing her exchange study at Western Kentucky University and during her study, she began the story Rancheros that follows the Latin American Espinoza family. Betina Garcia continued to work on the story about the family and now her long term project has won the »
The welcome lecture for the spring 2023 photojournalism students was held by Mads Joakim Rimer Rasmussen, Tuesday the 31st of January in the Yellow Auditorium. »
Friday the 27th of January, the small group of Photo 2 students went to Copenhagen to participate in Salih Basheer‘s book launch/exhibition and visited the daily Information, where they had talks with photographers Sigrid Nygaard and Anders Rye Skjoldjensen. »
Thursday the 26th of January, the graduation ceremony for communication, journalism and photojournalism students was held at DMJX and photojournalist Jesper Houborg received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA-project. »
15 international students will start next week at DMJX Photojournalism. Seven of these students have received scholarships to be able to study in Denmark. The ten students at Photo 1 will be:Alexandra Iulia Corcode (Romania)Laura Collard (Belgium)Mohammad Jaafer (Sudan)Leon Joshua Dreischulte (Germany)Toukir Ahmed Tanvee (Bangladesh)Tomáš Pacovský (Czech Republic)Owen Ziliak (USA)Zohreh »
Nichlas Pollier’s first year exam project, that he made during his second term in the spring 2022, has been published over four spreads in Jyllands-Posten on Sunday, January 8th 2023. »
With the beginning of 2023, Søren Pagter could celebrate his 25 years anniversary at DMJX. This was marked at a small informal reception in the school’s canteen on Friday the 6th of January. Søren Pagter began as a teacher of photojournalism at the Danish School of Journalism (as it was »
The nominees for the 2022 Danish POY have been announced and eight of the 27 nominees are students from DMJX. The eight nominated DMJX students are: Axel Emil Hammerbo – third term in fall 22Johanne Teglgård Olsen – final year, on leave, working for Kristeligt DagbladLiv Møller Kastrup – graduating »
