Almost 9 years ago, in February 2010, we launched our first website in order to inform about the photojournalism activities at DMJX. Back then we had to make everything from scratch. There were no templates that could create a website for you. Former student and photojournalist Sofus Comer developed the »
Mikkel Hørlyck received first prize for his project “The Neglected” in the Homework category at the 12th International Festival of Photojournalism Vilnius Photo Circle, when the festival was held in Lithuania this weekend. “The Neglected” was made while Mikkel was studying at his third term at DMJX in the fall »
Last week, our nine international Photo I students launched their magazine “Avalanche” at a reception at the school. The magazine is now available online here on our webpage. Click on Showcases to read and watch the work by Marco Carmignan (Italy) Patrick Riley (Australia) Henrik Røyne (Norway) Elke Numeyer (Australia) »
Cairo Photo Week opens tonight downtown Cairo, Egypt. The brand new festival, which is arranged by Photopia, runs from the 22. till the 30. of November. The festival focusses on all kinds of photography and will have workshops, lectures, exhibitions, portfolio reviews etc. Søren Pagter will be at part of »
Søren Pagter released his textbook “The Essential Image” today. “The Essential Image” is 14×20 cm and consists of 230 pages divided into 12 chapters. The chapters are: 1. The essential image. 2. Photographs are impressions of the world. 3. The photojournalist as storyteller. 4. Your toolbox. 5. The visual tool »
Meinrad Schade visited DMJX today, when he was passing through Aarhus on his way to his wife’s PhD defence at Aalborg Univerisity. During his lecture Meinrad Schade showed and talked about his two long-term projects “War Without War” and “Unresolved”. »
Part of Hashem Shakeri’s project “An Elegy for the Death of Hamun” is exhibited at the Silk Road Gallery, Grand Palais, at Paris Photo this weekend. Hashem made the project as his final Photo Story during Photo I in the spring 2018. »
Our third terms students are right now making the final adjustments on their photo documentary exhibition, which will open tomorrow, Friday the 9th, at 2pm in the front hall at DMJX. The 13 students have over a working period of three weeks in the field made individual photo stories including »
The Multimedia Categories at College Photographer of the Year were judged over the weekend and there were DMJX winners in all four categories. Group Story or Essay – Standalone Laura Bisgaard Krogh, Olivia Loftlund and Marie Bentzon won Gold for their video documentary “A + C”. The three students made »
The still picture division at College Photographer of the Year was judged during the past week at University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. Eight different DMJX-students won nine different prizes: Interpretive Project Nanna Navntoft won Silver for her project about extreme eating habits. Nanna made the project during her internship at »
Eman Helal‘s final Diploma Project made this spring is published both online and on print in the Danish Newspaper, Kristeligt Dagblad. Eman’s story is a series of portraits and interviews, which tell about what it’s mean to be an American Muslim in the Trump era. Eman Helal has met some »
We are happy to announce that Deepti Asthana from India receive The Alexandra Boulat Grant and Mushfiq Mahbub Turjo from Bangladesh receive The Shahidul Alam Grant to study at our Photo I program in the spring 2019. Thank you to all the 25 highly qualified photographers from 10 different countries, »
Hashem Shakeri is among the 50 photographers, who has been selected for LensCulture’s Emerging Talent Awards 2018. Hashem has been chosen based on his final Photo Story, “An Elegy for the Death of Hamun“, made during Photo I in the spring 2018. Hundreds of photographers from more than 150 countries »
Nine third terms students have been a part of a portrait project arranged by photojournalist Liv Høybye from Aarhus Municipality and are now exhibiting their portaits together with Liv Høybe at Dokk1 Liv Høybye has worked with life stories, where she portrays and interviews old citizens to re-tell their stories. »
Five DMJX students have been selected from more than 360 applications to participate in the Nikon Noor Academy, which is workshops run by Noor photographers in Italy, Hungary and Switzerland. The selected students, who will participate in either the workshops in Italy and Switzerland, are: Italy Giulia Frigieri – graduated »
Seven DMJX students have been enjoying a busy and inspiring weekend at the 31st Eddie Adams Workshop this weekend. DMJX students at Eddie Adams Workshop. Back from left to right: Eve Edelheit (volunteer and producer at the workshop), Liz Moughon, Allison Hess, Lukas Kreibig, Mathias Svold and Evgeny Makarov. Front: »
Hashem Shakeri’s story about the climate change in the south-east of Iran is published over five pages in the French magazine Courrier International. Hashem made the story in the spring 2018 as his final project, while he was studying at our Photo I programme. One page of the five pages »
Arko Datto studied one year at our photojournalism programs back in 2013. Today, Arko was back in Aarhus to give a talk for our final year students and Sunday, he will give a talk at present Photobook Week Aarhus. Arko Datto, member of Noor Images, showed and talked about his »
Our colleagues from Mittuniversitet in Sundsvall visited DMJX this Tuesday till Thursday for the very first meeting, where we began to draw the lines for our new international master in photojournalism. Per Mattsson, Mads Greve and Terje Lindblom working on the plan for the new master education. Photo: Søren Pagter. »
