World Press Photo has announced the 167 young photographers, who have been nominated for this year’s prestigious Joop Swart Master Class . Ten of the nominees are former DMJX-students: Arko Datto, India Claudia Gori, Italy Dario Bosio, Italy Filippo Menichetti, Italy Lærke Posselt, Denmark Matthew Abbott, Australia Rebecka Uhlin, Sweden »

Emanuele Camerini‘s project “The Twelfth Night” is right now featured on GUP Magazine online. It is said that people, who are born with webbed toes are descendants of the seal woman’s family. Picture from “The Twelfth Night” by Emanuele Camerini. Emanuele did his story as his final Diploma Project in the fall 2014. The »

The Danish CPOY exhibition was opened by the mayor of Aarhus, Jacob Bundsgaard, yesterday at ARoS arts’s museum. The Danish POY opened at ARoS art’s museum yesterday. Picture by Casper Holmenlund Christensen. As it has become a tradition the Aarhus municipality honours those DMJX-students, who were nominated for the Danish POY »

Roger Anis has been selected among 900 photographers to be among the 20 nominated for the fifth POPCAP prize for comtemporary African photography. Spread from Roger Anis’ project A Closet Full of Dreams. Roger Anis was nominated for his project A Closet Full of Dreams, which he made as his final Diploma Project »

This afternoon the award ceremony for the Danish POY was held at the National Library in Copenhagen and here the winners of the different categories were announced. Seven DMJX-students were already nominated for the Danish POY. Four of them ended up winning first prizes in three different categories. Screen-shot from »

International student Ella Kiviniemi graduated yesterday with her final Diploma project By the Borderline.  First spread of Ella Kiviniemi’s story By the Borderline. The project is a story about Finns living close to the Finnish-Russian border, and the way the difficult relationship between the two countries has affected their lifes. Through the stories »

Tor Birk Trads’ final BA-project is published in the recent magazine Ud og Se. First spread of Tor Birk Trads’ story in Ud og Se. Tor Birk Trads’ BA-project covers the history and present stories from Albertslund – a suburb to Copenhagen. Tor Birk Trads graduated in January and won »

First term student Mads Claus Rasmussen is one the seven DMJX-students, who’re nominated for the Danish Picture of the Year 2015. This is quite extra ordinary since Mads only started his study at DMJX this February. It must be the first time that one of our students has been nominated »

Tonight, we held the annual “Open House” at DMJX in Aarhus. Around 600 guests visited the school to get information about the different Danish BA programmes and to meet with students and teachers.  Third term students Sarah, Stine and Emil ready to meet the guests. Picture by Mads Greve. Stine promoting »

Emanuele Camerini’s Visual Project, “Notes for a Silent Man” was launched as a book this Thursday. The cover of Emanuele Camerini’s recent book “Notes for a Silent Man”. Emanuele’s project is a tribute to his father and was origianally made during Photo2 in the fall 2014. Now, the independant Italian »

The Italian photo festival, Perugia Social Photo Fest, has announced the awarded projects for this year’s festival – And both Katharina Bauer and Claudia Gori have received honorable mentions. Portrait of the woman Susanne from Katharina Bauer’s story about her. Katharina Bauer’s project “In the Cocoon” has been awarded in the »

Nanna Navntoft finished her second term this January with an exam project about parents, who have kids with autism. The Danish daily Information has bought and published Nanna’s story – both the pictures and article are published over three pages in today’s newspaper. The first spread of Nanna Navntoft’s story »

This Saturday Søren Pagter held the opening speech at the exhibition “Transit” at gallery PixlArt in Øservrå, in the north of Denmark. “Transit” focusses on the current refugee challenges in Europe and in the exhibition you can see stories made by Sofie Amalie Klougart, Sigrid Nygaard, Jacob Ehrbahn, Magnus Wennman, »

PixlArt Magazine 03 covers the exhibition “Transit”, which is going to be opened on Saturday the 13th at PixlArt in ØsterVrå, Denmark.  The “Transit” exhibition is a selection of stories about the current refugee situation – covered by nine different photographers. The front cover of PixlArt Magazine 03. Click to »

Deep down in the basement in the north end of the school there’s a secret photo exhibition hanging. And it’s been there for almost ten years now. Mette Mørk showing her re-found BA project to the picture editors Michael Bager, Fyens Stiftstidende (left), Mads Hansen, Vejle Amts Folkeblad and Fredericia »

Yesterday evening, we welcomed all photojournalist students with an inspiring and honest lecture by the Swedish freelance photograoher Johan Bävman. Johan Bävman talking with the students after his lecture at DMJX yesterday evening. Picture by Søren Pagter. Johan Bävman mainly showed and talked about his two projects: “Albino” and “Sweidsh »

Join us on Instagram and Facebook. The Facebook page will show news and photos from the photojurnalism faculty and on Instagram students will share work and projects.  Right now Cathrine Ertmann shows the project The Land Beyond, which is exhibited at the Utzon Center in Aalborg, and from tomorrow you »

This week our Photo2 and Danish 8th term students are having a workshop with Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol. A few snapshots from the first day of class: Picture by Kasper Palsnov.   Picture by Kasper Palsnov. As a part of his visit at DMJX, Jacob Aue Sobol gave a »

Today, at the graduation ceremony Tor Birk Trads was awarded the Scanpix Prize for best Danish photojournalistic BA-project. The front cover picture of Tor Birk Trads’ prize winning project. Tor Birk Trads won with his project called “Det, der er nærmest, er det, vi ikke ser” (What’s closest, we do »

As her Visual Project during 8th semester in the spring 2013 Cathrine Ertmann did the project “Landet Udenfor” (the Country Outside). “Landet Udenfor” a camera obscura project by Cathrine Ertmann. Cathrine Ertmann visited abandoned houses and made the rooms into camera obscuras. Then she digitally photographed the inside of the »