For the first time ever, it was necessary to hold an online reception for our recent student magazine, “it wasn’t supposed to be like this”. More than 30 people from all over the world joined the event. Shortly after our eight international students began their magazine workshop, Denmark was closed »
Yesterday, Mads Greve and Søren Pagter met at DMJX to pack everything and get ready for moving to the new campus. Due to the current Covid-19 situation it was an emotional experience closing down the photo department without any buzzing students around. »
Friday the 6th of March, the award ceremony for the Danish Picture of the Year was held at The Black Diamond, The Royal Library in Copenhagen. 7 photojournalist students, 1 TV Media Production student and 1 guest teacher from DMJX won first prizes at the competition.3 photojournalist students were runners-up »
Today’s award ceremony at the Danish POY turned out to be historical when DMJX photojournalist students won first prizes in 7 out the 16 categories – among these the main prize; “Picture of the Year” went to Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker. The photojournalist student winners are: Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker won both »
This week, DMJX has had two Open School Events – one at each of our campuses. Both in Copenhagen and in Aarhus, potential applicants could meet with students and teachers in order to learn about all the nine educational programmes offered at DMJX. »
Marius Renner Christensen‘s project “Prison is a Way out of Poverty” is published over four pages in the Danish magazine 360 Degrees. Marius’ story is about a rehabilitation project in the Prison Civile d’Agadez, Niger. Marius made the project during his third term in the fall 2019. »
Jesper Houborg and Valdemar Stroe Ren‘s third term project about illegal deforestation in Romania is published in the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen – both online and in the printed edition. The two students made the story in the fall 2019 and they’re both nominated for this year’s Danish POY. »
Terje Abusdal has launched the book “Hope Blinds Reason” which consists of images made along the Ganga River in India. Terje Abusdal started the project in 2014 as his Visual Project during our Photo II programme. In the following years till 2016, he went back to continue the project. »
The Swedish photographer Elin Berge gave this term’s welcoming lecture at DMJX today. Elin Berge told the students about the background for her career and showed her various projects, where most of them are made in her home country Sweden – and she also showed pictures from her upcoming book. »
At yesterday’s graduation ceremony, Nanna Navntoft received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA-project. Nanna Navntoft received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for her project “Day 1 – notes about overeating”. The project portrays and tells the stories of five men, who suffers from overeating. Two photojournalistic projects were nominated »
Last week, Gitte Luk conducted a four-day workshop in Cairo on writing for photographers. Gitte Luk’s workshop is the third in a row of four workshops for a group of Egyptian photographers. During the workshop the 12 participants were taught how to use observation as a method and how to »
Lukas Kreibig‘s story “Heart of the Seal” continues to be shown and published around the world. This time China Esquire printed the story on 12 pages. Lukas Kreibig made the story as his final project in November 2017. With Heart of the Seal, Lukas has won the BFF Förderpreis and »
Oscar Scott Carl‘s prizewinning story “A Boys Home in Nuuk” are online at the Danish magazine Euroman. Oscar made the story during his third term i the fall 2018 and he is currently interning at Berlingske Media. The story about the orphanage “Kaassassuk” is also online on showcases at our »
Yesterday, the nominees for this year’s Danish Picture of the Year were announced and more than one third of the names on the list are students from DMJX. Ten photojournalist student are among the 28 nominated photographers:Andreas HaubjergAndreas Beukel VintherJesper HouborgLaura Bisgaard KroghJoakim Rimer RasmussenMorten Lau-NielsenNanna NavntoftOscar Scott CarlSarah Hartvigsen »
Tobias Kobborg‘s story about the young Kenyan runner Cornelius Kemboi is published on BBC Sport online. Tobias Kobborg made the story “No one could catch me” during his third term in the fall 2018. With the story, Tobias was last year, one of out ten students to be nominated for »
Today, around 50 DMJX students gathered for our traditional final screening day, where students from all terms showed their work to each other. »
Out of 67 applications for our Photo I programme, we have selected the ten students, who will study at DMJX in the spring 2020. Two of these students will receive scholarships from the VII Foundation. We have selected Solmaz Daryani and Sabry Khaled to receive a scholarship each to study »
Shirin Abedi is one of 12 students from Germany, Austria and Schwitzerland, who will receive the BFF grant of € 1,500 to continue a photo project. Shirin receives the grant based on her final Photo I project “May I have this Dance”. Shirin’s says about project: “Since the revolution in »
Mikkel Hørlyck‘s project “The Neglected” was published in Politiken, Sunday the 1st of December and is also available online at politiken.dk. Mikkel made the project during his third term in the fall 2016 and he recently won the prestigious Discovery Of The Year at the 17th Lucie Awards ceremony, which »
Exactly two years ago, in November 2017, Lukas Kreibig started his final project at DMJX. He made the story “Heart of a Seal” about the Greenlandic town Uummannaq, it’s people and how they’re affected by the climate changes. Lukas continued to work on the story and now it is published »
