DMJX projects shown at Photographic Museum

The website Photographic Museum of Humanity is this month focussing on Danish photojournalism by showing five selected stories made by Danish photographers. Among the selected photographers are two DMJX projects: Beautiful Child by Lærke Posselt and Unspoken Legacy by Lars Just. Picture from the story Unspoken Leagcy by Lars Just. Lærke Posselt did her story »

Søren Pagter head judge at Iceland POY

Søren Pagter, head of the department of photojournalism, has been announced the head judge of the Icelandic Picture of the Year 2014. The Icelandic Press Photographers Association arranges the competition, which is divided into two groups: one for portrait, magazine, landscape and daily life + one for news, sports and series. »

Evgeny Makarov in Dummy Magazin

Evgeny Makarov‘s story about young Russian right wing vigilantes in Moscow is published in the recent edition of the German Dummy Magazin. Evgeny Makarov did the story in the spring 2014 as his final Diploma Project. »

Long night leading to deadline

This morning, our final year students have handed in their final BA and Diploma projects. As always the students have been working hard all the way up to deadline and especially the last night has been tough with very little or no sleep. Thursday morning at 8.30 Emanuele and Giulia »

Asger Ladefoged’s BA project in Berlingske

Asger Ladefoged graduated his BA in the spring 2014 with a story about young Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Asger’s story has been published in Berlingske – this Sunday it was published in the printed version of the newspaper and now it can be seen online at www.b.dk. Spread from Sunday’s »

Five new web documentaries

Our international photo1 students have just finished five web documentaries at their workshop with Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Bombay Flying Club. The very sleepy photo1 students after a very long night’s work – together with the more awake teachers. Picture by Søren Pagter. The five stories are presented »

Dennis Lehmann exhibits his BA in Greenland

Yesterday, the photographers Dennis Lehmann and Lasse Mejlvang held a reception of their exhibition Inuit.nu in the culture house Taseralik in Sisimiut, Greenland. The opening of Inuit.nu in Sisimiut, Greenland. The exhibition consists of two individual projects from two very different parts of Greenland: the rural Upernavik in the far »

A handful of news from the past weeks

In the past couple of weeks we’ve been busy at the school – first of all with teaching and secondly with updating the website with the wonderful CPOY news. Therefore we have a handful of very different news from the past weeks to share with you. Anders, 18 years old. »

Award of Excellence in Multimedia Category

As the last news from cpoy this year DMJX students were awarded an Award of Execellence in the Large Group Multimedia Project Category. This is a short webdocumentary done by Lizz Cardwell and Terje Abusdal on a workshop with Bombay Flying Club i the fall of 2013. This Award of »

Mario Wezel College Photographer of the year

On the fourth and last day of the judging of the still photo division at CPOY the two main categories Documentary and Portfolio were judged – And again with an amazing result for our DMJX-students. From the story “One in Eight Hundred” about Emmy who’s born with Down’s Syndrome. Picture »

CPOY third day: Eight DMJX students have won

It’s morning in Denmark and we’re eager to see the results of the third day of judging at CPOY. Before midnight (Danish time) it was already announced that three DMJX-students had great success in the International Picture Story category. This news can be read here. But there was more good »

Mohammedreza Soltani won and had his picture debated online

One additional news update from the first day of CPOY judging: Mohammadreza Soltani won an Award of Excellence in the Portrait Category. Picture by Mohammadreza Soltani. The picture of an elderly Arab woman who takes a cooling bath was the subject of a long discussion in the jury about the »

CPOY second day: Eight prizes for six DMJX students

Brittany Greeson, Kasper Palsnov, Peter Klint Jørgensen, Daniel Ekbladh, Betina Garcia and Asger Ladefoged have all won prizes on the second day of the 69th CPOY competition, where three categories were judged. The Feature Category: Faron Cox of Fordsville, Ky., paces back and forth gathering wood for an open pit »

Gold and silver in CPOY portrait category

Sunday, the judging of the 69th CPOY contest began at Missouri University in Columbia, USA. The three first categories to be judged were sports action, spot news and portrait and two DMJX-students won gold and silver in the portrait category: Aleksander, 22. Picture by Jasper Bastian. Jasper Bastian won gold »

Sofia Busk wins Informations Fotopris

Photo by Sofia Busk. The purpose of Informations Fotopris is to honor photojournalist students who are able to create strong photography in a hectic enviroment at a newspaper or at an agency.The winner is awarded a Canon 5D mark III. This year the jury was Lærke Posselt, Kent Klich and »

Mads Greve and Søren Pagter nominated for Fotogratula Prize

We, Mads Greve and Søren Pagter, are humble and proud to announce that we’ve been nominated for the Fotogratula Prize. Some weeks ago a group of students surprised us in class when reading out load their reason for nominating us for the new Danish photography prize called Fotogratula. The nomination »

Marie Hald’s story in the Huffington Post

It’s hard to keep track of all the times our students have their stories published and exhibited – but we try to post all the news, we get about our students and their projects. And surely some stories are published so often that we can’t follow the news flow. One »

Lasse Bak Mejlvang also in The Other Hundred

Lasse Bak Mejlvang‘s story The Baisikeli Brothers has also been selected for the comming edition of the book The Other Hundred. The story is about the bicycle culture and the refurbishing of old bycylces in Mozambique From the story The Baisikeli Brothers by Lasse Bak Mejlvang. Lasse Bak Mejlvang did »

Nikolai Linares selected for The Other Hundred

Nikolai Linares‘ story, The Last Fisherman, about the decreasing number of fishermen in Denmark has been selected for the next edition of the book The Other Hundred. From the story The Last Fisherman by Nikolai Linares. Nikolai Linares did the story while attending DMJX from where he graduated his BA »