Photographer Jørn Stjerneklar from Mayday Press visited DMJX this Friday afternoon to show and talk about his films on PTSD. Jørn Stjerneklar has covered many conflicts mainly in Africa including the genocide in Rwanda 25 years ago. This conflict gave him PTSD, and he still occasionally experiences attacks. In 2016, »

Louise Herrche Serup’s third term project about young people with mental disorders has been published in Politiken this Sunday the 31st of March. Louise started the project during her third term in the spring 2017. The project was a part of our Youth in Europe workshop, which we organized in »

For the past two days, Søren Pagter has been assisting picture editor Thomas Borberg at Politiken, where they’ve had a personal talks with each of the staff photographers at the newspaper. »

Hashem Shakeri has been shortlisted in the documentary category at Sony World Photography Award, professional competition. Hashem Shakeri has been shortlisted for his project “An Elegy for the Daeth of Hamun”, which he made as his final Photo Story during our Photo I programme in the spring 2018. The winners »

Tobias Kobborg is among the ten students world wide, who has been selected for the World Photography Student Competition organized by Sony. Students from all over the world have been invited to submit a body of work responding to the topic “Evolution”. Tobias Kobborg participated on behalf of DMJX with »

Sunday the 17th of March, the jury of the Status:19 exhibition met in Copenhagen to select the 100 pictures, which will be shown at the exhibition. 2354 pictures were submitted in the five categories: commercial, art, portraiture, communication and journalism. The jury consisted of:Thomas Preis, Creative director and founder, THE »

The past four days, George Azar from the American Univeristy of Beirut has been visiting and lecturing at DMJX. George Azar is an award-winning photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, who has covered the Middle East since 1981. His photographs have appeared on the front pages of the New York Times and »

Giulia Mangione and Ilaria di Biagio are showing their DMJX projects right now – Giulia at ICP in New York and Ilaria in the Italian magazine MIND. »

The tenth Chobi Mela Festival opened Thursday the 28th of February in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Søren Pagter and DMJX participated in the festival, which has exhibitions, talks, workshops and many other things. Chobi Mela runs till the 9th of March. »

The winners at the Danish POY were announced today at the award ceremony at the Royal Library in Copenhagen. DMJX students won three first prizes. Julie Kristensen and Andreas Merrald won first prize in the category Long TV/Web story for their story „Distant Love“, which they made during our third »

This week DMJX opened the school for visitors and future students. The Open School event was held on Tuesday in Copenhagen and on Thursday in Aarhus During the Open School the visitors could learn about the various DMJX educations and the application processes. Just like it was possible to meet »

We’re extremely happy and proud to announce that the VII Foundation will continue to sponsor two grants for students, who wants to study at Photo I in the fall 2019. The one grant will be named The Alexandra Boulat Grant in remembrance of the late, prize winning French photographer, who »

Capucine Chandon‘s project “Biophilia” will be exhibited for the first time at IHECS’ 60th anniversary. Capucine Chandon studied at DMJX as an exchange student from our partner school IHECS, first in the spring 2017 and then in the spring 2018, where she made the story “Biophilia” as her final Diploma Project. »

Last week we had the honor of hosting the Fotobus with Christoph Bangert and 60 German photographers and students. Mads Greve talked to them about the school and our international classes and the afternoon was spent on student screenings, where 10 of the German guests and 10 of the Danish »

Pieter ten Hoopen, who teaches regularly at DMJX, has been nominated twice at this year’s World Press Photo. Pieter is nominated in the categories World Press Photo Story of the Year and Spot News Stories for his series about the thousands of Central American refugees, who in October 2018 joined »

Copenhagen Photo Festival has shortlisted 13 photographers for this year’s festival. Among these are fourth term student Tobias Kobborg. Tobias Kobborg is shortlisted with his project “No One Copuld Catch Me” about the young Kenyan runner Cornelius Kemboi. Tobias made the project during his Photo Documentray workshop during third term »

Kenneth Lysbjerg Koustrup’s 7th term project about the area Værneengene on the Danish west coast is published in yesterday’s Jyllands-Posten. Kenneth did the project in the autumn 2018 together with the three journalist students Anne Cecilie Emmery, Rikke Sandberg Olsen and Mie Vognstoft Vad. Kenneth is currently studying at our »

This weekend, Mads Greve was chairman of the jury at the Islandic Photo of the Year. The Icelandic jury includes seven members who are judging seven categories and also selecting the photo of the year. The members of the jury met in Reykjavik and consisted beside Mads Greve of Icelandic »

Rasmus Flindt Pedersen gave the welcoming lecture for around 50 photojournalist students at DMJX today. Rasmus, who graduated from DMJX in 2011, shared three of his major projects: the refugee challenges in Europe, stories from Mosul in Iraq and finally his latest work from Yemen. During the lecture, Rasmus shared »