Kent Klich lecturing at DMJX

Kent Klich lecturing at DMJX today. Photo: Søren Pagter. Yesterday, Jan Grarup gave a welcoming lecture for all our photojournalist students and today Kent Klich also welcomed the students with an afternoon lecture. Kent Klich talked about the process of making his current exhibition and book “Gaza Works”, which received »

Jan Grarup at DMJX

Jan Grarup with his more than five kilo heavy book “and then there was silence”. Photo: Søren Pagter. The world famous Danish photojournalist Jan Grarup presented his giant book project “And then there was silence” at DMJX today. All the photojournalist students were gathered in our TV-auditorium for the first »

Back at DMJX ten years after Photo I

Shumon Ahmed back in the computer room 205. Photo: Søren Pagter. Shumon Ahmed visited DMJX with his family today ten years after he graduated Photo I. Shumon came to DMJX in 2008 as the first of two exchange students from our partner institution Pathshala in Bangladesh. Shumon Ahmed and his »

Last days of international diploma

Noor photographer Alixandra Fazzina is editing picture stories together with the participants of the “Documentary Photography Projects”. Photo by Torben Nielsen. 11 photographers from all over the world have praticipated in the second and last part of our international diploma programme “Documentary Photography Projects” during the past days at World »

Life Exposed at Kulturmødet

Life Exposed was screened in a bunker at Kulturmødet on the Island Mors last week. Mobilephone picture by Pixlart. Last week the national cultural meeting “Kulturmødet” was held at the island Mors in Denmark. The digital galleri Pixlart showed five exhibitions at “Kulturmødet” – one of them was Life Exposed, »

Terje Abusdal wins the Leica Oskar Barnack Award

Terje Abusdal at his artist’s recidency in Amsterdam, where he stayed in June this year. Photo: Søren Pagter. Terje Abusdal has won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his project Slash and Burn about the Forest Finns – farmers, who 400 years ago migrated from Finland to forrest area along »

Heba Khamis in Newsweek

Heba Khamis‘ final Diploma project Banned Beauty is published in the recent edition of Newsweek. The story is also available at Newsweek online. Banned Beauty is the story about breast ironing in Cameroun – a tradition where the mother protect their daughters against early marriage or sexual assault by flattening »

Svold and Hasemann’s BA project in Politiken

This Sunday the Danish newspaper Politiken published Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann‘s BA project “Altid den samme og aldrig ens” (Always the same and never alike). Mathsi Svold and Ulrik Hasemann graduated this June with their mutual BA project. The two photographers have travelled the 7500 kilometers around the Danish »

Janus Engel wins the Scanpix Prize

Janus Engel listens to the motivation for the Scanpix Prize read by Søren Pagter at the graduation ceremony this Thursday. Photo: Laura Bisgaard Krogh At the graduation ceremony yesterday, Janus Engel received the Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA-project. Janus Engel got the prize for his project “The National Immune »

250 people at the opening of Life Exposed at Pixlart

This Saturday 250 guests came to see Life Exposed at the opening at Pixlart, Østervrå in Northern Jutland. Queue in front of Pixlart this Saturday to get to see Life Exposed in the former church. Photo: Pixlart. The main hall at Pixlart, where the Life Exposed stories are shown on »

Svold and Hasemann in Feature Shot

Mathias Svold and Ulrik Hasemann‘s project about the refugees stuck in the city of Belgrade is published in Features Shot. 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 »

Life Exposed at Pixlart

Life Exposed will be screened at Pixlart in the following five weeks. Photo: Ulrik Hasemann and Mathias Svold. Our anniversary exhibition Life Exposed opens at Pixlart Gallery, Østervrå, Northern Jutland, tomorrow at 1pm. The set up wil be totally different than the container exhibition at Copenhagen Photo Festival, but just »

6 DMJX students to Visa pour l’image with Canon

Evening screening at Visa pour l’Image. Photo: Canon. A jury consisting of photographer Magnus Wennman from Aftonbladet, picture editor Thomas Borberg from Politiken and Per Karlsson from Canon Sweden has selected the 6 DMJX students who will go to Visa pour l’Image this September with the Canon Student program. The »

Cecile Smetana Baudier in The New Yorker

Cecile Smetana Baudier‘s BA project from 2016 “Diaspora” is published in The New Yorker with an introduction by Jonathan Blitzer. Photo from “Diaspora” by Cecile Smetana Baudier. “Diaspora” is the story about the Afro-American communmity Costa Chica in Mexico. »

Final screening day spring 2017

The traditional final screening day was held at DMJX today. All photojournalist students gathered in the auditorium, where they showed projects from their final workshops to each other. Arthur Cammelbeeck from second term opened today’s screening with his first year project. Photo: Søren Pagter. Second term students discussing their project »

International guests at DMJX photojournalism

As a part of our 25 years anniversary we have invited our international partners for the celebration and for a visit at the school. Søren Pagter explaining about the magazine workshops at DMJX. Photo: Bruce Strong. Yesterday, Bruce Strong (Syracuse University, USA), Nishant Shilpakar (Photo.Circle, Nepal), Tanzim Wahab (Pathshala, Bangladesh) »

Two Artist talks at Life Exposed

Yesterday, two artist talks were held at Life Exposed. Evgeny Makarov at his Narko Stop. Photo: Dominik Betz Evgeny Makarov were talking about his project Narko Stop. And Nanna Navntoft, Sille Veilmark and Benjamin Nørskov were talking about their video documentary Crazy About Food. This coming Thursday at 4pm Ulrik »

Life Exposed screened at a pop up show

The Pixlart Gallery has made pop up night screenings different places in Copenhagen during Copenhagen Photo Festival. The night between Sunday and Monday they showed a selection of Life Exposed at Kgs. Nytorv. Narko Stop by Evgeny Makarov screened at Kgs. Nytorv in the center of Copenhagen. Photo: Tao Lytzen. »

Moments from the opening of Life Exposed

Søren Pagter opening Life Exposed and thanking all the people, who have contributed to the exhibition Photo: Noa City-Eliyahu. The guests listening to the opening speech by Tanzim Wahab at Life Exposed this Friday. Photo: Noa City-Eliyahu. The crowd gathered in the yard of the exhibition place for a drone »

Mads Greve to talk at Copenhagen Photo Festival book event

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. »