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. »
Yesterday, the DMJX school in Copenhagen opened the doors for people interested in studying at one of the nine BA educations at DMJX. Kasper Palsnov, Camilla Rønde, Søren Pagter and Sophia Lydolph Ready for the open school in Copenhagen. Søren Pagter and three students of photojournalism told about the photojournalism »
Emanuele Camerini is among the winners of Canon Profifoto Prize with his story “The Twelfth Night”, which tells about the myth about the seal woman on the Faroe Islands. Picture from the story “The Twelfth Night” by Emanuele Camerini. Emanuele did the story as his final diploma project in the fall »
Normally, we only post news about DMJX students, DMJX projects and life at the school, but some news are simply so big that we need to post them on our website. Danish photographer Mads Nissen has today won World Press Photo of the year 2014 with the picture of Jon »
Claudia Gori’s story “My name is Camilla and I love my life” is published in Muskelsvindfonden‘s magazine and on their website. A spread from the book as Claudia Gori made it at DMJX. The story is about Camilla Kjeldsen Nielsen, who suffers muscular dystrophy and is the mother of three kids. »
This week the selected stories for the “30 under 30” competition were announced – and two out of the 30 winning projects have been made at DMJX: From the project “Across the River” by Jasper Bastian. Jasper Bastian was selected for his diploma project “Across the River” about the divided town »
Right now the 72nd POYi competition is being judged at Missouri University in Columbia, Missouri, USA. Yesterday, the winners of the portrait category were announced and final year student Marcus Trappaud Bjørn won silver in portrait series with his portraits from the Staten Island Ferry. Portrait from “The Staten Island »
During class earlier this week we had unexpected visitors. Tobias Nicolai Kvist Larsen grabbed a camera and documented the visit. »
Seven years ago Anders Birch graduated his BA at DMJX with his story “Hometown” about Midland, Texas – the hometown of former US president George W. Bush. Today, Anders Birch was back at DMJX to give the welcome lecture for all our photojournalist students. At the lecture Anders Birch took the »
Laetitia Vancon has won the Blumm Prize for her story “My home, My Prison” about the Albanian Vukaj family, who suffers from a blood feud with another Albanian family. The Vukaj family, who has now escaped to Belgium, was present at the award ceremony. Laetitia Vancon has decided to give one »
The web documentary “Adam and Eve could easily have been black” made by Sara Gangsted and Mathias Løvgreen Bojesen will be screened at the Ukranian Wiz-Art festival tonight. Screendump from the web documentary. Click the image to see the full story. Sara and Mathias did the story at their third »
Every semester at the demission ceremony the picture agency Scanpix hands out a prize for the best photojournalistic BA project The demission ceremony for the students graduating this fall was held today and here Dennis Lehmann received the Scanpix Prize for his project “Upernavik and Other Stories” – the project »
This week photographer Diana Markosian is teaching our final year students in personal story telling. As a part of her visit, Diana Markosian held a lecture for all our photojournalist students telling about how her career started – comming from a writing background and jumping into photojournalism and personal story »
The photographic website L’Oeil de la Photographie is featuring Emanuele Camerini’s diploma project from the fall of 2014. The project called The Twelfth Night is about the legend of the Seal Woman in the Faroe Islands. See it here or on the link below. »
A few days ago we received a letter sent to us by in the traditional way by the Royal Danish Mail. The letter contained two b/w prints – real handmade prints of two of our former groups of students – shot by one of the students, Terje Abusdal, on his »
Just before Christmas our Danish third term students finished their web documentary workshop arranged by Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Bombay Flying Club. Danish third term students group picture by Søren Pagter. The nine Danish students all worked with the theme “family” and in pairs they made four different »
