Mohamed Mahdy launched his book Here the Doors Don’t Know Me in November 2025 at Paris Photo. Mahdy studied at DMJX in 2022 where part of the stories in the book were made. With this project, he received the 2024 DMJX-ECCA Award to support the making of an interactive webpage »
Khashayar Javanmardi (KJ) is currently exhibiting his project The Caspian ‘Lake’ at Foam Museum Amsterdam. Khashayar Javanmardi graduated our Photo 1 programme in December 2019 and Photo 2 in December 2020. In this period he started the project about the environmental damages affecting the Caspian Sea of Iran. A year »
The judging of the still pictures categories at the 80th College Photographer of the Year concluded Sunday, October 26 and DMJX students won a total of 11 prizes in six different categories. In the category for International Picture Story six of the seven awards went to DMJX students. FinalistPORTRAITSigne Lægsgaard »
The second issue of New Danish Documentary was released on Friday, October 24 and three DMJX projects were selected for the publication. New Danish Photography is a photographic journal established by Disko Bay, Spine Studio and Dansk Dokumentarisme, published every second year. The first edition, New Danish Documentary #01 was published »
We have selected the ten students, who will join DMJX in the spring 2026 and among them are Sadiq Al-Harasi and Suman Nepali, who have been selected by the ECCA Family Foundation to receive the foundation’s full scholarship. 32 photographers applied for our Photo 1 programme and 15 of them »
The judging of the multimedia categories at the 80th College Photographer of the Year has ended and three DMJX stories have been awarded. GOLDDocumentary ShortCara Penquite & Ellen Wiklund FINALISTDocumentary ShortKatja Hasenöhrl and Rhiannon Johnston FINALISTOnline StorytellingEmilie Toldam Futtrup »
Six DMJX seventh term students showed and talked about five of their projects at Fotografisk Salon in Aarhus, Monday evening, October 20, 2025. Fotografisk Salon is a mixed group of photographers from Aarhus, who meet once a month for lectures about photography. »
These days, Louise Herrche Serup and Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker are making the final preparations for their exhibition You Still Don’t Know My Name that will open at the Gender Museum Denmark, Thursday, October 9, 2025. You Still Don’t Know My Name is a 110 picture large documentary exhibition telling the »
Dicte Sønnischsen‘s story Untamed Lands was published both on print and online in the Danish newspaper Information on Saturday, September 27, 2025 and Dicte is shortlisted for PhotoVogue. Dicte Sønnichesen is also among the 150 photographers shortlisted for PhotoVogue, Women by Women, where she has proceeded to the port folio »
Photo 2 student Zifan Zhang participated in photo festival Vilnius Photo Circle between the 27th and 29th of September 2025 and exhibited at Sarajevo Photography Festival in June 2025. Zifan Zhang graduated his Photo 1 studies at DMJX in June 2025 and is currently continuing his study at the Photo »
Mikkel Hørlyck opened his exhibition Jørgen, a Mystery at the DMJX Gallery this past week. During his visit Mikkel talked about his project to our Photo 1 students. Jørgen, a MysteryBy Mikkel Hørlyck, conflict photojournalist As a photographer, I wouldn’t doubt a second saying, that I had the honor of »
Ten Photo 1 students and 12 Danish first term students have stated their study at DMJX photojournalism this fall. They are already several weeks into their programmes, so it is about time to present them here. We are happy to welcome you at the school and looking forward to working »
At the port folio reviews of the 2025 Visa Pour l’Image, Islam Safwat has been selected as a Coup de Coeur based on his personal project When Time Doesn’t Heal. As a Coup de Coeur selectee, Islam Safwat must submit his project for the French organisation ANI – Association Nationale des »
Five images from Benjamin Nørskov‘s long-term project EPA Sweden are published as national stamps by PostNord in Sweden. Approximately a year ago, Benjamin Nørskov was contacted by PostNord, who wanted to use five of his images from the EPA Sweden project for national Swedish stamps. Together with Benjamin, the company »
DMJX students opened two exhibitions at Aarhus Public Library – Dokk1 Tuesday, September 2, 2025. The two exhibitions are Paradox made in the spring 2024 by a group of Danish and international students, and Aarhus Portraits made by the ten Photo 1 students of the fall 2025. PARADOXParadox is a »
Swedish photographer Åsa Sjöström gave the welcome lecture of the fall 2025 term to 49 photojournalism students at DMJX on Wednesday, August 27. »
Zifan Zhang‘s project “Lost and Found” has been selected as one of three finalists among nearly 50 submissions for the Highlight Award at Vilnius Photo Circle. Lost and FoundAs the war in Ukraine enters its third year, Transnistria—bordered by Moldova and Ukraine—faces deepening isolation. Politically unrecognised and reliant on Russia, »
Christian Falck Wolff and Simon Gerlinger are part of the group exhibition Sein und Werden at the photo festival Les Rencontre d’Arles in France Sein und Werden is exhibited in Fotohaus in Arles and consists of eight projects – four of them selected by Hamburg Portfolio Review and four selected »
Graduate student Emilie Toldam Futtrup has won Kravlingprisen with her project Trusting the Eyes of Others. Emilie Toldam Futtrup has won Kravlingprisen for her BA-project Trusting the Eyes of Others that she made in the fall 2024. Trusting the Eyes of Others is an online story about 25-year old Frederikke »
30 DMJX students attended three days with exhibitions, portfolio reviews, workshops and talks at the 2025 Copenhagen Photo Festival. Here are some of the highlights from the study trip to Copenhagen that concluded the spring term. Portfolio reviews, Thursday, June 12 at Lille Mølle Opening of the festival, Thursday, June »
