Yesterday, the World Press Photo announced this year’s 163 candidates for the Joop Swart Master Class. Among the nominees are a lot of former and one present DMJX-students: – Arko Datto, India – international Photo2, fall 2013. – Evgeny Makarov, Germany – international Photo2, spring 2014. – Fabian Weiss, Germany – international »
Our international Photo1 students finished their magazine workshop this last Friday. Now, their magazine called “State of Mind” has been printed and will be launched at a reception in the main aula Friday the 17th of April at 1.30pm. You can already read the magazine online by clicking on the »
International photo2 student, Stefanie Moshammer is busy right now. While in the middle of the work with her final Diploma Project, she also launches her first book “Vegas and She” at a book reception at 9.30pm on the 23rd of April in Queens Club, Vienna, Austria. You can see the »
If you have been in Copenhagen within the past month and passed the City Hall Square you couldn’t avoid seeing an outdoor exhibition of big portraits, which campaign for Depressionsforeningen – a Danish organisation, which works with information, aid and research on depression and bipolar. Katharina Bauer’s portraits of people »
Felix Von Der Osten’s diploma project The Buffalo That Could Not Dream about life on a Native American reservation in Montana, USA, has been shortlisted in the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award. Twenty projects has been shorlisted for the award and the winner will be announced in June. See it »
Mathias Christensen, who graduated in 2013, releases his book “Black Nest” this april. The pictures in “Black Nest” are made during Mathias’ internship at Politiken and during his 7th semester at DMJX. The cover of Mathias Christensen’s coming book. In his book, Mathias Christensen photographs the dark misty world of »
Today, our eight third term students opened their reportage exhibtion with stories made during a four-week workshop. Jonas Krogh Høholt hanging his story from the Danish Island Livø. Picture by Søren Pagter. Casper Holmenlund Christensen putting up the final picture for his story about refiugees in Athens. Picture by Søren »
Yesterday, the Danish POY exhibition opened at the arts museum ARoS in Aarhus and thereby the exhibition started it’s tour around Denmark. The Danish POY exhibied at ARoS – here it’s Sofia Busk’s prize winning story from E-Huset. Picture by Sofia Busk. As it has become a tradition, the Aarhus »
Together with the rest of the Photo2 and Danish 8th term students Barbara Leolini finished her Visual Project last week. A picture from Barbara Leolin’s project “The Swallows return”. Barbara’s project “The Swallows Return” is now featured at Lens Culture – where you can also see another Visual Project; “The »
Last week, Claudia Gori finished her Visual Project called “The Beautiful War” and already this week the project is featured at Lens Culture. One of the pictures from Claudia Gori’s Visual Project “The Beautiful War”. »
The film “Enjoy the Silence” by Pascal Giese is featured at Zeit Online for the next month. You can watch the film at Zeit online here or at Pascal own website. Screenshoot from Pascal Giese’s film “Enjoy the Silence”. Pascal Giese did the film about the deaf boy Robert Klees as his final »
Daniel Ekbladh has won second prize in the multimedia category at the Swedish POY 2014/2015. Daniel won with his story “Bye Bye Bröttjestad”, which he made as his Visual Project during the Photo 2 programme in the fall 2014. Daniel Ekbladh receiving his prize at the award ceremony for the Sweidsh »
The DMJX photojournalism programme is presented in the new edition of the PDN Edu magazine. This edition of the PDN magazine focusses on the topic “Family”. Our school is presented together with two other universities, which have all worked with the family topic as a part of the Family.Life project »
From today and one week ahead Noor-photographer Alixandra Fazzina will be teaching our final year students in order to prepare them for their final BA/Diploma projects. Alixandra Fazzina teaching at DMJX today. Picture by Fabian Fiechter. While in Denmark, Alixandra Fazzina will give two lectures: – one on the 17th »
Søren Pagter has made a review for Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten on Joachim Ladefoged‘s new book “Tiden efter min tid”. The review was published Saturday the 28th of February and is also available online here. »
This afternoon the winners of the Danish Picture of the Year 2014 were announced at the award cermony at the National Library in Copenhagen. 12 DMJX-students out of a total of 36 nominated photographers were nominated for the Danish POY. All three prizes in the multimedia category were won by DMJX-students »
Søren Pagter has been interviewed for magazine “Journalisten” about the WPP disqualification of Giovanni Troilo. In the interview Søren Pagter states that the whole matter can open a new debate about staged photojournalism. “Journalistic manipulation is just as problematic as digital manipulation”, Søren Pagter says in the interview. You can read »
Last week the winners of the Picture of the Year in Iceland were announced at a ceremony in Reykjavik. Sigrtyggur Ari Jóhannsson wins Picture of the Year 2014 in Iceland with this picture of a young refugee on hunger strike. Søren Pagter was the head judge of the competition and while »
Marcus Trappaud Bjørn’s prize winning story “The Staten Island Ferry” has been published in the New York Times this Sunday the 1st of March. The story is also available online. The New York Times Album section from the 1st March 2014. Marcus Trappaud Bjørn did the story while studying at »
Today our 2nd semester visited ARoS Museum of Art in Aarhus with guest teacher Julie Bilgrau, who took this photo of the class at a 3D installation. »
