Anders Holst Pedersen graduated in January 2024 with a story about the Danish Home Guard that can celebrate it’s 75 years anniversary this year.Sunday, March 31, Politiken published Anders’ story over five pages. »

Søren Pagter has in the recent week been interviewed for various Danish Media about the controversy of the manipulated family picture of the British Princess Kate and her children. Søren Pagter has participated in the Danish TV broadcast stations DR and in “Presselogen” at TV2 News (the above image). He »

Mads Greve, who had been part of the jury at “Årets Bild”, handed out the main price to winner Linus Sundahl-Djerf, Svenska Dagbladet at the award ceremony Thursday, March 14, 2024. »

The Danish second term students and the international Photo 1 students concluded their first six weeks of the spring term with a group exhibition in the front hall at DMJX. The exhibition shows the students’ individual short documentary stories. It opened Friday, March 8 and will be on show till »

The two parties, ECCA Family Foundation and DMJX Photojournalism have just signed a new four-year agreement that will enable up to 24 photographers to come and study in Denmark. With the agreement, ECCA Family Foundation will support students to come and study at both Photo 1 and Photo 2 programmes »

Mathias Eis and Frederik Danielsen are among the five young talents selected from 90 applications for FUTURES Nordic Talents 2024 by the Copenhagen Photo Festival. Mathias Eis has been selected based on his project “Are we nearly there, yet”, exploring life at the 148 rest stops along the Danish highways. »

Mohamed Mahdy is one of the three photographers selected for the Photography Prize of the Fondation des Treilles. Since 2015, in collaboration with local residents, Mohamed Mahdy has documented how inhabitants are suffering from the rapid urban development in Alexandria, Egypt. One of the chapters was added to the photo project »

Christian Falck Wolff, graduate from DMJX this January 2024, was announced winner of the Danish Picture of the Year 2023 at the award ceremony at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Friday March 1. The Danish Picture of the Year is organized by Pressefotografforbundet (The Danish Press Photographers’ Association) and the exhibition can »

Friday the 1st of March, the award ceremony for the Danish Picture of the Year was held at The Black Diamond, The Royal Library in Copenhagen.Three photojournalist students won four first prizes and four photojournalist students won second prizes. One photojournalist alumnus won Long Term Project of the year with »

Owen Ziliak has won third place in the science category at NPPA 2024 Best of Photojournalism with an image made during his exchange study at DMJX. Owen Ziliak made the picture in the spring 2023 while producing a video documentary about the bird watchers in Skagen together with his fellow »

DMJX held two open school events last week for applicants for one of our Danish educational programmes. If you want to apply for the Danish BA in Photojournalism, you can learn more and apply through the official DMJX webpage. »

Last week from February 20 to 22, DMJX Photojournalism held three different guest lectures – two for all our students and one to prepare our fourth term students for their long documentary project. »

Monday, February 19, Søren Pagter held a talk about AI and documentary photography for 60 photographers at Fotografisk Salon, Aarhus. »

Sergei Stroitelev‘s personal book-project I Wish it Was Just a Nightmare made at DMJX in the fall 2022 has been published by Experimental. The photobook I Wish it Was Just a Nightmare delves into the harrowing aftermath of the war in Ukraine, ignited by Russia’s aggression in 2022. Fleeing censorship, »

Søren Pagter was interviewed for Kulturen at the national Danish radio channel P1, today. The focus for the interview was the difficulties in photographing climate stories and the fact that three out of the five single pictures nominated for the Danish Press Photo of the Year cover climate issues. You »

Lamees Saleh Sharf El Din is among the 15 selectees for Copenhagen Photo Festival 2024. Lamees is selected on behalf of her project “Indefinitely” that she made during our Egyptian Language of Photojournalism programme that was held in co-operation with DEDI – The Danish Egyptian Dialogue Initiative. Lamees Saleh Sharf »

Amelie Sachs‘ book project Vergissmeinnicht is among the five winners of The Dummy Award 2023. The personal project started and the first dummy was made during Amelie’s study at DMJX in the spring 2021. Amelie Sachs studied at Photo 2 in the spring 2021 and here she started the project »

Firday, February 2 all photojournalism students gathered for a full day of lectures and social events. »

The German podcast GATE7 have published a 50 minutes conversation in English with Søren Pagter, where he talks about his book The Essential Image and his philosophy of documentary photography. »

Sefa Eyol has won bronze in the category Editorial/Conflict at Tokyo International Foto Awards The winning image is part of Sefa’s project “The Costs of Freedom” – a reportage project about the struggle of the Ukrainian people during the Russian attack at their nation. The project is made between April »