We are happy to announce the names of the 15 international students who will study at Photo 1 and 2 in the fall 2024. Four of these have received a full scholarship from the ECCA Family Foundation. Photo 1 students, fall 2024Hassan Kamil (Sudan)Lara Habor (Germany)Anna Mensing (Germany)Minoo Hassanzadeh (Iran)Sil »

Nichlas Pollier was in Danish national television April, 23 together with Mads Nissen speaking about World Press Photo, Gaza, the role of photojournalism, and Nichlas’ reportage trip to the West Bank that he made during his 4th term in 2023. »

Thursday, April 18, Søren Pagter was interviewed live in the Danish Radio4 about Mohammed Salem’s 2024 World Press Photo winning image. You can see and read about all the 2024 winning images at World Press Photo’s website. »

Friday, April 12, all regular teaching was suspended and instead a DMJX Festival with a selection of 16 lectures was held at the campus in Aarhus. »

Anders Holst Pedersen graduated in January 2024 with a story about the Danish Home Guard that can celebrate it’s 75 years anniversary this year.Sunday, March 31, Politiken published Anders’ story over five pages. »

Søren Pagter has in the recent week been interviewed for various Danish Media about the controversy of the manipulated family picture of the British Princess Kate and her children. Søren Pagter has participated in the Danish TV broadcast stations DR and in “Presselogen” at TV2 News (the above image). He »

Mads Greve, who had been part of the jury at “Årets Bild”, handed out the main price to winner Linus Sundahl-Djerf, Svenska Dagbladet at the award ceremony Thursday, March 14, 2024. »

The Danish second term students and the international Photo 1 students concluded their first six weeks of the spring term with a group exhibition in the front hall at DMJX. The exhibition shows the students’ individual short documentary stories. It opened Friday, March 8 and will be on show till »

The two parties, ECCA Family Foundation and DMJX Photojournalism have just signed a new four-year agreement that will enable up to 24 photographers to come and study in Denmark. With the agreement, ECCA Family Foundation will support students to come and study at both Photo 1 and Photo 2 programmes »

Mathias Eis and Frederik Danielsen are among the five young talents selected from 90 applications for FUTURES Nordic Talents 2024 by the Copenhagen Photo Festival. Mathias Eis has been selected based on his project “Are we nearly there, yet”, exploring life at the 148 rest stops along the Danish highways. »

Mohamed Mahdy is one of the three photographers selected for the Photography Prize of the Fondation des Treilles. Since 2015, in collaboration with local residents, Mohamed Mahdy has documented how inhabitants are suffering from the rapid urban development in Alexandria, Egypt. One of the chapters was added to the photo project »

Christian Falck Wolff, graduate from DMJX this January 2024, was announced winner of the Danish Picture of the Year 2023 at the award ceremony at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Friday March 1. The Danish Picture of the Year is organized by Pressefotografforbundet (The Danish Press Photographers’ Association) and the exhibition can »

Friday the 1st of March, the award ceremony for the Danish Picture of the Year was held at The Black Diamond, The Royal Library in Copenhagen.Three photojournalist students won four first prizes and four photojournalist students won second prizes. One photojournalist alumnus won Long Term Project of the year with »

Owen Ziliak has won third place in the science category at NPPA 2024 Best of Photojournalism with an image made during his exchange study at DMJX. Owen Ziliak made the picture in the spring 2023 while producing a video documentary about the bird watchers in Skagen together with his fellow »

DMJX held two open school events last week for applicants for one of our Danish educational programmes. If you want to apply for the Danish BA in Photojournalism, you can learn more and apply through the official DMJX webpage. »

Last week from February 20 to 22, DMJX Photojournalism held three different guest lectures – two for all our students and one to prepare our fourth term students for their long documentary project. »

Monday, February 19, Søren Pagter held a talk about AI and documentary photography for 60 photographers at Fotografisk Salon, Aarhus. »

Sergei Stroitelev‘s personal book-project I Wish it Was Just a Nightmare made at DMJX in the fall 2022 has been published by Experimental. The photobook I Wish it Was Just a Nightmare delves into the harrowing aftermath of the war in Ukraine, ignited by Russia’s aggression in 2022. Fleeing censorship, »

Søren Pagter was interviewed for Kulturen at the national Danish radio channel P1, today. The focus for the interview was the difficulties in photographing climate stories and the fact that three out of the five single pictures nominated for the Danish Press Photo of the Year cover climate issues. You »

Lamees Saleh Sharf El Din is among the 15 selectees for Copenhagen Photo Festival 2024. Lamees is selected on behalf of her project “Indefinitely” that she made during our Egyptian Language of Photojournalism programme that was held in co-operation with DEDI – The Danish Egyptian Dialogue Initiative. Lamees Saleh Sharf »