Debate about the Danish Picture of the year

The Danish Pressphotographers Association arranged a panel discussion about this year’s Danish Picture of the Year at PixlArt Gallery in Østervrå this Monday afternoon. Fourth term student Katinka Klinge was a part of the panel. Due to the huge debate, which this year’s selection of especially the Picture of the »

Tobias Nicolai has won Kravlingprisen

Tobias Nicolai has won the Kravling award for his BA-project Wolf Land. Saturday the 11th of May, ‘Wolf Land’ was awarded the first prize in the tv- and photo category at this year’s Kravling Awards. It was an unanimous decision from the jury consisting of Thomas Borberg, Jonas Fogh, Angelina Owino, Sisse Strøyer and Harley Hersom. »

Two international exhibitions

Our international Photo I students, Shirin Abedi and Deepti Asthana, are right now exhibiting in respectively Germany and Switzerland. »

Søren Pagter starts series of workshops

The organisation Freelancegruppen has created a series of workshops with the title “Create your own large photo project”. Monday the 13th of May, Søren Pagter kickstarted the workshops for the 14 participants. “Create your own large photo project” is a series of lectures with photographers Mads Nissen, Sara Galbiati and »

Distant Love selected for Odense Film Festival

Julie Kristensen and Andreas Merrald’s short doc film, Distant Love, has been selected for the international Odense Film Festival. Distant Love is nominated in the categories Danish Competiton, Documentary Competition og Youth Competition at the festival. Julie and Andreas made the film during their video documentary workshop with Henrik Kastenskov »

Peter Nygaard wins Informations Fotopris

Peter Nygaard received Information Fotopris 2019 this Friday. The prize has been established to honor photojournalism students, who during their internship create high quality work. The second prize went to Nanna Navntoft, Politiken and the third prize went to Mads Claus Rasmussen, Ritzau Scanpix. Peter Nygaard has been interning at »

Next To You moves on to Reykjavik

The second masterclass workshop for Nordic and Russian photographers is happening in Reykjavik, Iceland. During three days the participants are working in groups discussing and editing their photo stories, which they have worked on in Kaliningrad, Russia, and Reykjavik. The photographic master class Next To You is organised by Nordic »

Arko Datto back at DMJX

The past two days, our former student Arko Datto has been back to teach at DMJX. Arko Datto is back in Aarhus because he’s currently exhibiting his project Pik-Nik at Gallery Image. While in Aarhus, Arko Datto also visited DMJX, where he studied for one year back in 2013. This »

Launch of two student magazines

The Danish second term students and the international Photo I students launched their magazines today. Two workshops ended today with a huge reception and an exhibition of the two magazines Morsø – made by our second term students and Nest – made by our international Photo I students. Both magazines »

Eight DMJX students selected for the Status:19 exhibition

The Status:19 exhibition opened at Fotodage Viborg Friday the 3rd of May. Eight DMJX students are among the 47 photographers selected for the exhibition. The DMJX students selected for the exhibition are:Sille VeilmarkNanna NavntoftSofie MathiassenIda Marie Odgaard and Ivan BollTobias NicolaiMads Claus RasmussenMorten Lau-Nielsen We’re sharing the selected images on »

Book launch and exhibition of Coastland

Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann made their BA-project, Coastland back in 2017. After their graduation they contiuned the project, which is now being exhibited and published as a book. The book will be launched at Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen on the 2nd of May from 5pm till 7.30pm. The book »

Scholarships for Tripty Tamang Pakhrin and Khashayar Javanmardi

We have selected Tripty Tamang Pakhrin and Khashayar Javanmardi to receive a scholarship each to study at our Photo I programme in the fall 2019. Tripty Tamang Pakhrin receives the The Alexandra Boulat Grant in remembrance of the late, prize winning French photographer, who was a member and co-founder of »

Mathias Svold in National Geographic

In 2017, Mathias Svold won College Photographer of the Year and with this prize he also won an internship at National Geographic, where he made a story about the Whanganui River in New Zealand. Now, National Geographic has published the story. Mathias Svold has travelled along the Whanganui River, which »

Kobborg og Kastenskov at World Photography Awards in London

Tobias Kobborg and teacher Henrik Kastenskov were in London for the Sony World Photography award ceremony last week. Tobias Kobborg and teacher Henrik Kastenskov were invited to the World Photography Award ceremony last week due to Tobias’ nomination for the Student Competition. They spent three days in London. On the »

BA-project in Politiken

Ida Marie Odgaard and Ivan Boll‘s BA-project was published in the Sunday edition of Politiken on the 21st of April and can also be seen online at politiken.dk. »

Pieter ten Hoopen wins World Press Photo Story of the year

Our regular guest teacher Pieter ten Hoopen won World Press Photo Story of the year at the award ceremony in Amsterdam, yesterday evening. Pieter ten Hoopen, Agence VU/Civilian Act won the prestigious prize based on his project “The Migrant Caravan”, which is the story about the thousands of Central American »

Tobias Kobborg in Jyllands-Posten

Tobias Kobborg is interviewed for Jyllands-Posten because of his World Photography nomination and project. A couple of weeks ago it was announced that Tobias Kobborg is among the ten students world wide, who have been selected for the World Photography Student Competition organized by Sony. As a part of this »

The Essential Image out in Russian

With the financial support from the Nordic Council of Ministers it has been made possible to translate and publish a Russian version of Søren Pagter’s book “The Essential Image” The Russian book is a part of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ co-operation programme aimed for Russia and the book will »

Arthur Cammelbeeck in the magazine Journalisten

The magazine Journalisten has interviewed photojournalist student Arthur Cammelbeeck about how he himself found and established his internship at Altinget. In the interview Arthur tells about what he did, when he didn’t get an internship in the first round – and he talks about how the newly established internship at »

Next To You in Kaliningrad

Associate Professor Mads Greve was in Kaliningrad, Russia this past week, where he together with Russian photographer Jana Romanova conducted the first of two master class workshops for young Nordic and Russian photographers. The master class is organized by Nordic Journalist Centre. The selected participants for the workshops are: Adrian »