In the past week, our second term students have been photographing sports and learning about having a fast workflow. They have been covering football (soccer), handball and basketball together with external teacher and sports photographer Bo Amstrup. Especially photographing football in the cold Danish winther has been a challenging experience. »
Our campus is Copenhagen is open to the public tonight, Tuesday the 27th of February. Photojournalist student Andreas Haubjerg talking to one of the guest at the “open school” tonight. Mads Greve will give information about the content of and the admission test for our BA in photojournalism – and »
Capucine Chandon and Nick Pfosi have won Award of Excellence in the Multimedia Feature Story category at the POYi. Screen shot from the prize winning video documentary “Take me as I am” by Capucine Chandon and Nick Pfosi. Click the image to watch the story. Capucine and Nick win with »
The 60 still pictures stories to be exhibited at this year’s Lumix Festival were announced yesterday. Picture from Ulrik Hasemann’s project “Coastland”, which will be exhibited at this year’s Lumix Festival. Two DMJX students were selected among the 1000 stories, which were submitted for the festival: – Ulrik Hasemann will »
Kristina Steiner‘s Diploma Project Sanguma about sorcery attacks in Papua New Guinea’s highlands is published in The Guardian right now. Victim JS at a shelter house operated by Voice for Change, a human rights organisation in Minj, Jiwaka province. Photo: Kristina Steiner. Kristina made the project as her final exam »
Heba Khamis (Egypt) is nominated for her story Banned Beauty at this year’s World Press Photo competition. She’s nominated in the category Contemporary Issuses, stories. A portrait from Heba Khamis’ prize winning story “Banned Beauty”. Photo: Heba Khamis. 4548 photographers submitted 73044 pictures for the contest. Out of these 42 »
Rebecka Uhlin, Photo II student from fall 2014, was back at DMJX to give the welcoming lecture for all photojournalist students. Rebecka Uhlin in the auditorium at DMJX today. Photo: Søren Pagter. Rebecka talked about her long term personal project Aina and Tage – a story about her grand parents, »
Ólafur Steiner Gestsson and his journalistic colleague, Frederik Tillitz, received the Ritzau Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA project at the graduation ceremony today. Søren Pagter reads the motivation for the Ritzau Scanpix prize, while Frederik Tillitz is listening. Photojournalist Ólafur Steiner Gestsson wasn’t present at the graduation ceremony. Photo: »
The Swedish museum for photography, Fotografiska, has selected Marie Hald as Young Nordic Photographer of the year 2018. A picture from Marie Hald’s 7th term project “Bonnie”, which is a part of her winning collection of images. Photo: Marie Hald. Marie Hald graduated from DMJX in the spring 2013 and »
Photographer and jury member Linda Bournane Engelberth celebrates the selection of the winner of “Årets Bild” in Norway. Photo: Martin Slottemo Lyngstad. This weekend Søren Pagter has been a part of the jury at the Norwegian POY called “Årets Bild”. After 10 hours work Saturday and 8 hours work Sunday »
Last week David Williams had his final exam and graduated as photojournalist. This week part of his and journalist Kristian Krüger’s project about the Canadian oil industry was published in the daily Information. Front page of Information with David Williams and Kristian Krüger’s story. Photo: David Williams. David Williams and »
The nominated photographers for this years’ Danish Picture of the Year were announced tonight. Half of the total of 32 nominated photographers are students from DMJX. 15 of the nominated from DMJX are or have been photojournalist students in 2017 – and one is a student at our TV media »
It’s time for the judging of the annual photo competitions around the world and this January, Søren Pagter will be a part of the jury at “Årets Bild” in Norway. There will be four jury members to judge the still pictures in Norway. The other jury members are all Norwegians »
International student Lukas Kreibig has received the “Berufsverband Freie Fotografen und Filmgestalter e.V. Grant”, short BFF-Förderpreis for his project “The Heart of a Seal”, which he made as his final diploma project at Photo II this autumn. Kids run in the snow during a snowstorm in Uummannaq. Photo: Lukas Kreibig »
Just before New Year International student Eman Helal won third prize in the news picture section at the Egypt Press Photo Award. Eman won with this news picture, which she shot in April 2017. Relatives mourn at the funeral of victims killed in an explosion on April 9 ,2017 at »
Around 50 photojournalist students and teachers gathered today in the TV-auditorium at DMJX for the traditional final screening day. Photo I student Francis Wilson showing his final photo story at the final day at DMJX today. Photo: Farzad Soleimani. From 9am till 4pm the students showed each other the projects, »
Sina Niemeyer has been awarded first prize at the Perugia Social Fest, where the theme was The Skin I Live. Self portrait from Sina Niemeyer’s project “Für Mich”. Sina won in the category Therapeutic Photography with her project Für Mich, which she made as her Visual Project at Photo II »
This weekend the festival Vilnius Photo Circle was held in the capital of Lithuania. Vilnius Photo Circle is organized by the Lithuanian Press Photographers’ Association. As a part of the festival 10 projects were selected to be exhibited at Vilnius Photo Circle – just like they were nominated for the »
In September faculty teacher Søren Pagter covered the event Watermusic, which was one of the major events of the European Capital of Culture. Randers EgnsTeater, the organization behind Watermusic, also assigned layouter Martin Helgren and Søren Pagter to make a book with the pictures from the event. This 92 pages »
In the fall of last year and in the spring of this year photographer Mads Nissen and faculty teacher Mads Greve led a masterclass for young Nordic and Russian photographers in Sct. Petersburg and Copenhagen. The masterclass has resulted in the photobook Next To Me which is out now. The »
