During the past week, DMJX alumnus and World Press Photo winner Mohamed Mahdy has been back in Aarhus to present his book Here, the Doors Don’t Know Me and to give a talk to the current DMJX students. On Friday, February 13, Galleri Image organized a book launch of Mohamed »
As part of their course Learning about the Media Industry, the Danish fourth term students have been on a two-days study trip to Hamburg together with Søren Pagter. During the two days, they visited two exhibitions, attended a talk with photographer Alexandra Polina and visited the newspaper Die Zeit, where »
The five pictures nominated for Best Danish Press Photo of the Year 2025 have been announced and DMJX students Dicte Sønnichsen and Nichlas Pollier are among the candidates to win the prize. »
The three DMJX teachers Mads Greve, Steffen Moestrup and Søren Pagter have made an interview book with 14 Nordic photographers who work with documentary portraits. Book presentation from the back cover of the bookHow do you create a portrait that really captures a human being? 14 of Scandinavia’s most renowned »
Emilie Toldam has won an Award of Excellence at 2025 UNICEF Photo of the Year and her awarded project Miss Vogue will be exhibited together with the other winners at Willy Brandt’s House in Berlin from today till April 26, 2026. Emilie Toldam made Miss Vogue during her internship at »
Zifan Zhang is among only ten photographers in the world nominated for 2026 Student Photographer of the Year at World Photography Student Competition. Zifan is nominated for his project Being Young in Latvia that he made during his Photo 1 study in spring 2025. Six images from Zifan Zhang’s ten picture »
Monday, January 26, all photojournalism students met for two lectures to kick off the 2026 spring term. The two lecturers were Maria Albrechtsen Mortensen, staff photographer at the Royal Danish Theatre and Aliona Kardash, World Press Winner and freelance photographer from Hamburg. »
Thursday, January 22 the graduation ceremony for Danish DMJX photojournalists and journalists was held at the campus in Aarhus. August Vinther received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA-project. Images from the graduation ceremony: »
In co-operation with Photopia School of Photography and with the support of the Danish Embassy in Cairo, DMJX photojournalism will run an educational programme in Cairo throughout 2026. Outline of the programmeThe programme aims to educate 10–12 Egyptian photographers in the language and practice of photojournalism. It consists of four »
Friday, December 19, 2025, the international Photo 1 students launched their magazine THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. During the day, all photojournalism students gathered to end the fall 2025 term and watch each other’s projects. Images from the process of making the Photo 1 magazine: »
The 25 nominees for the 2025 Danish POY were announced this weekend and among them are six photojournalism students and one TV and Media Production student from DMJX. The DMJX nominees are:Cecilie Rolvung, photojournalism, graduating this January 2026Dicte Marie Hostrup Sønnichsen, photojournalism, currently interning at InformationLærke Berg-Pedersen, TV and Media »
Nora Schwarz‘s project Songs of the Taiga is part of the group exhibition Metamorphosis. States of Change at the Goethe-Institute in Paris. The exhibition opened November 13, 2025 during Paris Photo Fair and will run till January 12, 2026. Nora Schwarz started Songs of the Taiga as her final Diploma »
The Danish Photojournalist and World Press Photo winner Claus Bjørn is showing his retrospective exhibition What The Eye Cannot Forget at DMJX till March 15, 2026. Claus Bjørn (b. 1963) has worked as a press photographer since 1986 and has contributed to the development of the important for the documentation »
Five projects with connection to DMJX are part of the current Young Danish Photography exhibition, that opened at Fotografisk Center, Friday November 21, 2025. Fotografisk Center has since 1998 presented the annual Young Danish Photography exhibition. Every year, the exhibition venue co-operates with external curators to select the exhibiting photographers »
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 »
