Last friday our Danish third term students finished their web documentary workshop. During this past week they have refined and re-edited their stories, which are now available online. The four stories are: “Tænder du på mig” by Olafur Steinar Gestsson & Jens Welding Øllgaard. “Silent Enemy” by Casper Holmenlund Christensen and Emil »

The Copenhagen Photo Festival, which has been running for the past two weeks, is more than just a festival with exhibitions and lectures. The organisation behind the festival is also creating a website with online interviews with photographers and tutorials on photography. Søren Pagter talks about how to create a »

Five DMJX-students’ projects will be exhibited at the third Delhi Photo Festival from the 30th of October to the 8th of November this year. – Claudia Gori will be represented with her story “My Name is Camilla and I Love my Life”. Claudia did the story as her final photo story »

Last Friday we held our traditional final screening day, where students from all semesters gathered in the TV-auditorium to show their work and to say goodbye to each other. At the same time our international students received their transcripts and we made the half-year group picture. Here’s some pictures from »

Casper Holmenlund Christensen’s story about refugees living in fear in Greece has been published in Kristeligt Dagblad on Saturday the 13th of June. You can read the intro here. Casper made the story during a reportage workshop this spring. The workshop was conducted by photographer Carsten Snejbjerg. Casper Holmenlund Christensen starts »

The July edition of BJP (British Journal of Photography) focusses on how to teach photography. The magazine presents a series of stories about what they call “some of the world’s best photography educators”. We’re happy and proud to be among the schools selected for presentation in this magazine. The BJP presents »

Søren Pagter will moderate a debate on “sincere photography” today at 4pm at Photo Stage, Slottet, Pasteurvej 4 in Copenhagen. The debate will be a critical discussion about the definitions on sincere photography.  The panel for the debate will be: Mads Nissen, photographer at Politiken Linda Hansen, photographer and teacher »

Roger Anis, Photo2 student from Egypt, gave today a lecture about his participation in the World Press Photo workshop “Beyond the Arab Spring”. Roger Anis at the lecture today – showing pictures from his story about the collapse of the tourist industry in Egypt. Picture by Fabian Fiechter. Roger showed »

Sunday, Giulia Mangione won first prize with her project “Danesland” at Fotoleggendo Festival in Rome. Picture from the project “Danesland” by Giulia Mangione.   Picture from the project “Danesland” by Giulia Mangione. Fotoleggendo is a photography competition where the winner is selected based on portfolio reviews. Giulia Mangione did the project »

The sixth Copenhagen Photo Festival opens tomorrow with an amazing selection of exhibitions, talks and events. The DMJX Photojournalism Education will not be officially present with ONE exhibition of students’ work. Nevertheless, DMJX Photojournalism will be at the festival in many other ways: Picture from the “Black Nest” project by »

This week Ken Light, photographer and professor at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has visited DMJX. During his visit Ken Light gave two lectures – one in the auditorium for all interested students and one exclusive lecture for our final year students. Ken Light (to the right) together with our »

Gregers Tycho‘s BA project “Never Learned to Dance” has been released as a book by the same name. Cover of the book “Never Learned to Dance” by Gergers Tycho. The project is a selection of stories about the people living at Lindegårdshusene – a housing facility in Roskilde for around »

A selection of Kasper Løftgaard‘s project “Home, Once” is in PDN’s Emerging Magazine. You can find the pictures at page 20-22. Portrait of Kasper’s mother from the project “Home, Once”. Kasper did the the story as his Visual Project during his 8th semester this spring. This week, Kasper handed in »

Our final-year students had to meet their deadline for their final projects this morning. So it was a group of tired, but happy students I met when I came to work. Barbara “the Cocoon” Leolini. Picture by Fabian Fiechter. Kasper Løftgaard. Picture by Fabian Fiechter. Barbara Leolini, Fabian Fiechter and Claudia Gori. »

During his Visual Project earlier this year, Michael Drost-Hansen went to Burma to make a story about the muslim Rohingya people, who’re living in refugee camps after the Burmese have burned down their villages, neighboorhoods and houses. The spread from Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten with Michael Drost-Hansen’s Rohingya story. Michael’s story was published yesterday »

Back in 2010 Sisse Stroyer made the project “Sexting” as her Visual Project during her 8th semester at DMJX. The project is a collection of intimate and sexual mms-messages sent from one person to another. A mobile picture from the “Sexting” project. Idea and collection by Sisse Stroyer. The “Sexting” project was »

Today, Felix von der Osten won the British Journal of Photography Breakthrough Award with his story “The Buffalo that could not Dream”.  Portrait by Felix von der Osten from his project “The Buffalo that could not Dream”.  Felix won in the undergraduate category with his final diploma project, which he made at »

Ditte Lysgaard Holm‘s short film “Celebration” has won three prizes at Western Kentucky Film Festival: Best Short Narrative, Best Screenplay and Audience Choice. Ditte Lysggard Holm finished her exchange study at Western Kentucky University (WKU) in December 2014 – at the university she focussed on web-documentaries. »

Dennis Lehmann was announced as the winner of the Kravling Award at the award ceremony saturday night at Nørrebro Teater. Picture from Dennis Lehmann’s BA project “Upernavik og andre fortællinger”. Dennis Lehmann won in the photo/TV category for his BA project Upernavik og andre fortællinger. This year four of out five nominated »

The web documentary “Congratulations, it’s a…” by Petra Theibel and Mathias Svold has been selected for PDN photo Annual 2015. Screendump from the web documentary “Congratulations, it’s a…” by Petra Theibel and Mathias Svold. Click the image to watch the original site with the video, pictures and text. Only 11 »