At a photo book event at Copenhagen Photo Festival tomorrow faculty teacher Mads Greve will give a small talk about his book Blind Date. At the event former student Mathias Christensen will also be talking talking about his book Black Nest. Program and info here. »
Terje Abusdal in front of his 9 square meters house in Amsterdam. Photo: Søren Pagter. In the spring 2014 Terje Abusdal graudated with a project about the forrest Finns – slash and burn farmers, who 400 years ago migrated from Finland to forrest area along the Norwegian and Swedish border. »
Life Exposed exhibition. Photo by Søren Pagter. The big banners are up and the exhibitions are ready; tomorrow we’re ready to greet you all at Life Exposed – our anniversary exhibition. Life Exposed exhibition. Photo by Søren Pagter. We’re opening Friday at 4 pm, Gasværksgrunden, Sionsgade 5 in Copenhagen. Mathias »
Tanzim Wahab We’re happy to announce that Tanzim Wahab from our partner school, Pathshala in Bangladesh, will do the opening speech at Life Exposed. Tanzim Wahab is a Bangladeshi writer, curator and photographer, who works within photographic education with a focus on South-Asian context. Tanzim is the chief curator of »
Front page from Malene Anthony’s short documentary “Am I going to die now?” At the award ceremony this Saturday Malene Anthony Nielsen won the Kravling Prize in the Tv and photography category with her story “Er det nu jeg skal dø?” The short documentary tells the story about 8 year »
Screen shot from the documentary Crazy About Food by Nanna Navntoft, Sille Veilmark and Benjamin Nørskov. As a part of the celebration of our 25 years anniversary we’re also planning artist talks at Life Exposed – the anniversary exhibition. On the following dates you can meet students at their exhibitions: »
Screenshot from the video documentary “broken Love” by Jennifer Gotrik and Kristina Steiner – You can watch the documentaries by clicking the icons in the bottom. Our ten international Photo I students have made the last adjustments on their video documentaries and we’re now ready to launch them. You can »
Our new international diploma programme made in co-operation with Noor Images and World Press Photo started today at the World Press Photo office in Amsterdam. Alixandra Fazzina welcoming the participants at the first International Diploma course. Photo by Søren Pagter The 11 participants were welcomed by Asmara Pelupessy (Noor), Lars »
Anne Bæk and Morten Lau-Nielsen’s current story about the ten-year refugee Abdi and his family is on the front page of Politiken today. Front page of today’s Politiken. The two third term students made a video documentary about Abdi and his family this spring. The documentary is also online at »
The website Fotoroom.com has made an interview with Christian Liliendahl about his final BA-project Beyond Laponia. Christian Liliendahl graduated with this project in 2016 and is still working on it. Portrait of Ebba Enbom, Jokkmok. Photo by Christian Liliendahl. »
Faculty teacher Mads Greve and layouter Lars Bai discussing the design of the anniversary magazine “Life Exposed”. It is truly busy days right now. The anniversary magazine is being made and today the layouter Lars Bai came by the school with his first design suggestions. The magazine will have an »
Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann‘s project about the refugees stuck in the city of Belgrade is published in Washington Post. About 1,000 refugees and migrants sleep in abandoned warehouses, train wagons and shacks behind the central train station in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade. Photo by Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann. Mathias »
Two DMJX students have their final Diploma projects exhibited at the Head On Photo Festival in Sydney, Australia from the 6th till the 14th of May. Alana Holmberg shows her project Resist Laughter about young feminists in Turkey. The project was made during Photo II at DMJX in 2015. Portrait »
Our Danish second term students launch their magazine “Sønderlandet” with seven individual stories from the south region of Denmark. Front cover of the magazine Sønderlandet produced by our second term students. Click the image to read the magazine. The photojournalists have been on a week long trip where they have »
Nora Klein finished her final Photo II project in 2013 with a project about depression. Back at her home institution in Hannover, she continued the project in 2014 and did her degree about the same subject. Cover of Nora Klein’s book Mal gut, mehr schlecht. Now, the project has been »
Giulia Mangione‘s book The Happy Show is in the shortlist for the Kassel Dummy Award, which is right now at Istanbul Photobook Festival. Picture from Giulia Mangione’s project The Happy Show. Giulia started her project about the happy Danes as her final Photo Story during Photo I in the spring »
DMJX students Heba Khamis (Egypt) and Rebecka Uhlin (Sweden) are among the 12 young photographers, who are selected for this year’s Joop Swart Masterclass organized by World Press Photo. Heba Khamis’ selected port folio consisted of her story “Banned Beauty”, which will also be a part of our 25 years’ »
Mads Greve and Søren Pagter are on a study trip visiting three different schools in the US this week. Søren Pagter giving a morning lecture for the photojournalist students at Missouri University. Photo by Mads Greve. First stop is Missouri University, where Greve and Pagter gave a lecture about the »
There has been a small change in the date for our 25 years’ anniversary. Both the official opening of the anniversary exhibition and the party will be held on Friday the 2nd of June The 25 years’ anniversary exhibition will open at 4 pm on Friday the 2nd of June. »
Mads Claus Rasmussen‘s first year project about the war veteran Torsten Elkjær Andersen, who suffers from PTSD is published at DR online today. Portrait of the 45-year old war veteran Torsten Elkjær Andersen, who is fighting every day to get his PTSD acknowledged. Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen. The national »
