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 »
Brittany Greeson graduated our Photo1 programme in the autumn 2014 with a strong story about Kenth Ebbesen, a handicapped man who lives at the institution Sølund near Skanderborg. Picture of Kenth Ebbesen from the photo story about his life at Sølund. By Brittany Greeson. Brittany’s story and pictures about Kenth »
A selection of pictures from Mathias Christensen‘s “Black Nest” project was published in New York Times on the 6th of May. Page two in New York Times from yesterday, the 6th of May. Mathias Christensen made his “Black Nest” project while doing his internship at Politiken and during his 7th »
Our Danish second term students finished their magazine workshop last week and now their magazine called “Nordegn” is ready to launch. The students will launch their magazine at a reception at DMJX this Friday the 8th of May at 1pm. Cover of the magazine “Nordegn”. Click here to read. “Nordegn” »
Ten projects have been selected by the Danish aid organization Danida to receive their Verdensbilledlegat (World Picture Grant). Final-year student Simon Fals is among the receivers of the grant. Together with his journalistic colleague, Eigil Johannisson, they’ve received the grant to do a story about the Lake Victoria in Uganda – »
Ditte Lysgaard Holm finished her exchange study at Western Kentucky University (WKU) in December 2014 – at the university she focussed on web-documentaries. Together with a group of her fellow students from WKU, Ditte has just received the Hearst Journalism Multimedia Team Award for their final project Beyond Breath. Before »
A part of Camilla Rønde‘s BA project “Jeg giver dig mit liv” about Danish football supporters is published in this month’s edition of the Ud & Se magazine. The opening spread of Camilla Rønde’s story in Ud og Se. The story’s got the title “Fodboldfan” in Ud & Se and »
Mathias Christensen‘s project “Black Nest” has been selected for the 270 pages MONO book published by Gomma Books, London. Picture from the “Black Nest” project by Mathias Christensen. Mathias is among the seven winners who will have their work published in the second edition of the MONO book. The MONO »
Yet another student has his work displayed right now; Felix von der Osten‘s story “The Buffalo that could not dream” can be seen at Feature Shoot, where there’s also an interview with Felix. Picture by Felix vin der Osten from his project “The Buffalo that could not dream”. Felix von »
Within the past week, three different students have had their work published: Picture from Emanuele Camerini’s story “The Twelfth Night”. Emanuele Camerini’s final Diploma project, “The Twelfth Night”, is presented in Fotografia Magazine. The project is about the Nordic legend of the seal women. Emanuele shares his thoughts about the project »
Right now, our Danish second term students are putting together their magazine with stories from Frederikshavn – a town in the north of Denmark. The spreads are laid out on the floor to check for mistakes, flow etc. Picture by Søren Pagter. Susse Sommer is giving her feedback on the »
The 12 participants for this year’s Joop Swart Masterclass were announced at the World Press Photo award days this weekend in Amsterdam. Evgeny Makarov, international DMJX graduate from 2014, is selected for the masterclass based on his final diploma project Narko Stop about young Russian right wing vigilantes. Raid close to the Moscow »
Once every year the student members of the Danish Journalists Association award the best student project, The Kravling Award. In the Photo/TV. This year four of out five nominated projects are from DMJX. The nominees are: Jonas Skelgaard Olufson with the series Shirley fra Næstved produced while being in internship at »
One and a half week ago, Mario Wezel participated in the CPOY/POY award ceremony, which was hosted in Columbia, Missouri at Mizzou University. Mario accepted his College Photographer of the Year award, some free gear from Nikon and he gave a speech for about 50 people. Here are few snapshots »
