Søren Pagter interviewed about WPP ethics

The magazine Journalisten has interviewed Søren Pagter about the fact that eight percent of the pictures at World Press Photo was disqualified due to digital manipulation. The article is available online here. You can read an interview with Head of the WPP jury, Gary Knight at BJP online. »

Morten Germund wins at POYi

Morten Germund has won an Award of Excellence in the category: Feature Picture Story at POYi. Morten Germund won with his story Love, Lost Love – a story about his grandfather who struggles with loneliness after becomming a widower after 60 years of marriage. Picture by Morten Germund With this »

Helle Arensbak has succes with her BA project

Helle Arensbak graduated in the spring 2012 with her project “Sofasoverne” about the women living at the Institution Sundholm in Copenhagen. The women at Sundsholm used to live on the streets – but at the institution they’ve found a shelter for their drug and alcohol abuse. Else – one of »

Debate on World Press Photo winners

Friday, former student Marie Hald and Søren Pagter debated this year’s World Press Photo winners on the national television station DR2. Screendump from DR2 Marie Hald won at WPP last year and graduated in the spring 2013. The ten minute debate can be seen online here – after approximently 49 »

Goodbye to an old, honourable lady

Miss C-41 shortly after Mads Greve had switched off her main power. Picture by Mads Greve. Miss C-41 came to DMJX in the early spring of the year 2000. She was only a few years old and her metal was smooth and clean when we adopted her from the local »

More honour to Mario Wezel

It has been a fantastic week for Mario Wezel. First he was shortlistet as finalist for the Sony Wolrd Photography Award. Then he won another preis: Mario Wezel, Germany, is one of the five winners of the German Canon Prorfifoto Förderpreis for young talented photographers below 30 years of age. »

Three projects by international students win at WPO

This week, the World Photography Organisation (WPO) launched the shortlist of winners of the Sony Photography Awards 2013. Three international students are nominated in the professional categories: Picture by Mario Wezel Mario Wezel, Germany, is a finalist in the People category with his story One in Eight Hundred. Mario made »

Wet plate welcome for all photojournalists

Today, all DMJX photojournalists from all semesters gathered for a mutual welcome starting the spring semester. For the gathering, photojournalist Emil Ryge gave a lecture showing his BA project “Lorteøen” from 2010 – a project he has continued working on since his graduation. He also showed new work made with »

Grant for Nora Klein

Nora Klein has received a grant from the Sparkassenstiftung Erfurt to continue her project: “where are all the colours gone?” The project deals with depression and Nora Klein graduated from DMJX in the summer 2013 with this work. The grant is written out once a year and Nora Klein gets »

Lasse Mejlvang in Politiken

Lasse Mejlvang’s story Varanasi’s Backyard is published in Politiken’s Magazine. The story tells about the muslim minority in the Indian town Varanasi. The river Ganges has no religious meaning to the muslims. Nevertheless, they enjoy swimming in it. The hindus accept their use of the holy river. Lasse did the »

Maria Feck in Newsweek

Maria Feck’s story After surviving Lybia, Adrift in Europe is published on Newsweek.com. Zakaria uses the staircase in the St. Pauli Church to pray. Picture by Maria Feck. Maria’s story is about 80 men who escaped Libya and found shelter in St. Pauli Church in Hamburg. Maria Feck graduated our »

Good news in Journalisten

As I wrote yesterday, more than one third of the nominated photographers for the Danish POY are students from DMJX. Today, the journalism magazine Journalisten writes about this amazing record in their online edition. Also our official DMJX website writes about this extremely high number of nominated students. »

Mario Wezel in 6mois

Mario Wezel, international student from Germany, is presented in the French magazine 6mois. Each week the magazine selects one picture and write about how the photographer made the picture. In this case it’s a picture from Mario’s final diploma project, One in eight hundred, about Emmy, who suffers from Down’s »

12 students nominated at the Danish POY

During the past two day the jury at the Danish POY have worked their way through 2859 pictures and 48 tv and multimedia stories. And tonight the jury announced the names of the 32 photographers, who’re nominated for the Danish POY 2013/4. 12 or more than one third of the »

New and old web-documentaries

During the Christmas break, we’ve updated our website by including all the web-documentaries made over the past years at DMJX. You can get access to the 69 stories by clicking on the image below. Most of the web-documentaries have been made during workshops with Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from »

Mejlvang exhibits at Christiania

Lasse Bak Mejlvang exhibits his project from the 7th semester, Varanasi’s Backyard, at Månefiskeren at Christiania throughout January. The exhibition wil open Sunday January 5 at 17. Varanasi is a holy city for the hindus of India but just about a third of the city’s population are muslim. Mejlvang explored »

Arko Datto in GUP magazine

Arko Datto’s project Crossings: Promenades in the Arabian dessert was featured in GUP magazine just before Christmas. In the project Arko uses Google screenshots to take the viewer on an aerial walk through the Arabian dessert. Arko made the project during a workshop with Kent Klich on our International Photo »

Final screening day

Today is the final day of the fall semester 2013. Around 50 students spend the day watching each others projects made during their final workshops this year. Emine Akbaba, photo1 student from Germany, showing her project about Armenians in Turkey. During the long day in the auditorium we’re watching: – »

Cecile Baudier wins National Geographic contest

Cecile Baudier has won a first prize and an honorable mention in the People category at National Geographic 2013 Photo Contest. The identical twin brothers, Nils and Emil (15 years old) from Fyn, Denmark. The portrait is part of a series of pictures, portraying people who have a strong connection »