DMJX at the Lumix Festival

The sixth Lumix Festival starts today in Hannover and DMJX students and teachers are participating in the festival in various ways. Picture from the story “That Which Still Stands” by Anders Rye Skjoldjensen and Rune Aarestrup Pedersen. The story is among the 16 selected multimedia storiesat the Lumix Festival. Two »

Marie Hald selected for the 6×6 Global Talent Program

Even though Marie Hald graduated back in 2013 and we can’t call her a DMJX student any more , we’re happy to see her selected for the World Press Photo 6×6 Talent Program in Europe. One of the pictures from Marie Hald’s story “Bonnie”, which was a part of her winning »

Next to Me presented at the People’s Meeting

The master class project and book “Next to Me” was presented at the People’s Meeting, which was held this weekend at the Danish Island Bornholm. Mads Nissen, one of the teachers from the master class, presented the project and the participants’ stories at the People’s Meeting. Next to Me was »

Three DMJX students nominated for the World Report Award

The 8th World Report Award by the Festival of Ethical Photography has announced the shortlist for this year’s prizes and three DMJX student projects are shortlisted in several categories. Picture from Ulrik Hasemann’s story “Stuck At Belgrade Station”, which is shortlisted for the Spotlight Award at the 8th World Report »

Davis Winborne’s picture in the magazine Journalisten

Davis Winborne’s full page picture and the story behind it published in the magazine Journalisten. During the Photo I magazine workshop this spring, Davis Winborne made a story about the Danish weapon culture. Coming from Missouri, America, Davis was curious to learn about how Danes use weapon and investigate the »

DMJX students exhibit at Photo Triennale Hamburg

This weekend the Triennale der Photographie started in Hamburg and together with HS Hannover, University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the Magnum/SPEOS School of Photography, DMJX launched the exhibition “No Longer, Not Yet” made by 19 students from the three schools. The container with the “No Longer, Not Yet” »

An Elegy for the Death of Hamun

STILL PICTURE STORY by Hashem Shakeri – made as his final project during Photo I in the spring 2018. As the largest province of the country, Sistan and Baluchestan is located in the southeast of Iran and it shares borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan. Once a forest in the distant »

Final screening day spring 2018

Almost 50 DMJX photojournalist stduents spent all Friday in the DMJX TV-auditorium for our traditional final screening day. Photo I student Davis Winborne showing his project about the Trump Wall between USA and Mexico. Photo: Søren Pagter. Students listening to one of the many presentations in the TV-auditorium today. Photo: »

Weekend workshop at DMJX

While almost everybody in Denmark enjoyed the weekend and the summer sun, more than 20 students from Hannover, Paris and Aarhus gathered at DMJX in Aarhus this weekend for the final meeting at the mutual ”Youth in Europe” workshop. The students worked in four different groups helping each other with »

Lukas Kreibig exhibits huge pictures from Greenland

Lukas Kreibig is exhibiting his project “Uummannaq – The Heart of a Seal” about a small town in Northwest Greenland at the Fotofestival Zingst in Germany. Lukas Kreibig’s huge exhibition prints at Fotofestival Zingst in Germany. Photo: Lukas Kreibig. The festival runs till the 3rd of June, but Lukas’ extremely »

International joint Master in Photojournalism in Scandinavia

We’re extremely proud and happy to announce that we have received funding from Nordplus, supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers to develop and launch a new international master in photojournalism in 2020. The new international master in photojournalism will build on top of the already existing BA and international »

Seven photojournalist students go the Perpignan with Canon

Canon Europe has selected the students, who wil go on a free educational trip to Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan this coming September. 10 students from Denmark have been selected for the Canon Student Programme and out of these are seven photojournalist students from DMJX. The selected photojournalism students are: »

Greve and Pagter at Dok18 in Fredrikstad

This weekend Mads Greve and Søren Pagter have participated in the Dok18 Festival in Fredrikstad, Norway. At the three days festival there were lectures with among others the photographers Sanne de Wilde, Jessica Dimmock, Zack Canepari and the filmmaker Erik Poppe. Lars Dareberg (Sweden), Annemor Larsen (Norway) and Søren Pagter »

Anders Rye & Rune Aarestrup have won the Kravling Prize

This Saturday the winners of Kravling Prize were announced at Bremen Theater in Copenhagen. The Kravling Prizes are given annually to the best productions made by media and journalism students. The prizes are divided into four categories: – Journalism – Design – Communication – TV/photojournalism Rune Aarestrup Pedersen with the »

Sina Niemeyer’s book "Für Mich" will be published by Ceiba

Sina Niemeyer‘s Visual Project “Für Mich”, made during Photo II in the fall 2016, will be launched as a book at the Kassel Fotobook Festival, which runs from the 31st of May till the 3rd of June. Front cover of Sine Niemeyer’s book “Für Mich”. Photo: Ceiba. “Für Mich” is »

Mads Greve exhibits at Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival

Yesterday evening, Mads Greve and Lærke Posselt opened an exhibition at Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival in Georgia.  Mads Greve and Lærke Posselt’s exhibtion “Nowhere Near” at Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival in Georgia. The exhibition “Nowhere Near” is a combination of Lærke’s dark winter landscapes and Mads’ photos of encounters and »

Handmade book from our second term students

Our second term students have finished their magazine workshop today with a launch of their book Ama’r. The 16 students have been doing stories from the island Amager, outside Copenhagen. The 15 individual stories are combined in a book, where the students have created unique handmade covers for each of »

Peter Klint’s BA project in Ud & Se magazine

In January 2017, Peter Klint graudated with a very special BA-project. Peter Klint made a narrative story, where he through thorough interviews and portraits retold episodes from the life of his childhood friend, who suffers from more psykiatric diseases. The BA-project was just as much a written essay as it »

Søren Pagter in the Lumix Festival jury

This Friday, the jury for the 6th Lumix Festival met at the FREELENS Gallery in Hamburg to select the winners among the 60 still pictures stories, which will be exhibited at the festival in Hannover in June. The jury for the Lumix Festival in a discussion during their meeting in »

Julia Lindemalm has published the book Zoo World

Front cover of Julia Lindemalm’s newly published book – Zoo World. Back in 2011 Julia Lindemalm studied at Photo II at DMJX and her final Diploma Project was a project about how we treat animals at zoos. Julia Lindemalm has continued her project and visited zoos all over the world. »