We have previously written about the television programme Årets Mesterfotograf on the national television station DR K. In the programme series five talented, young photographers will compete witin the genres: reportage, portrait, fashion and art. Yesterday, the last programme in the series was shown and student Cecile Baudier won the »
Our international students from the programme “The language of photojournalism” have just finished their magazine workshop. And today at 13.30 they launch their magazine at a reception in the aula at the school. The magazine is also available online – you’ll find it beneath this news. The students behind the »
The DR series Mesterfotograf continues. DR’s website published today an interview with Søren Pagter about how to act when working. Find the interview here (in Danish). »
Jen Tse‘s story about Mihaela Jordan, 31, who’ve grown up in the sewers in Bucharest, Romania is in Vice Magazine right now. Jen Tse made the story as her reportage project when finishing our international photo 1 programme in the autumn 2011. Soon the story will be published in Welt »
This week DR started a series of programs where five young talented photographers are competing about the title Masterphotographer. They will have assignments covering reportage, portrait, fashion and art. Among the young photographers are Cecile Smetana Baudier, who is in her internship at Jyllands-Posten. More info here. »
Betina Garcia has won third prize in the portrait category at GAFFA photo award with this portrait of Isam B from the Danish band Outlandish. Betina Garcia is doing her internship at Berlingske Media right now. Each year the music magazine GAFFA celebrates the best music pictures by handing out »
American photographer Jen Davis visited DMJX yesterday. She met the students and gave a lecture about her work dealing with beauty and identity. Check out her work here. Photo of Jen Davis by Ida Munch. »
This Sunday, the daily Politiken publshed a part of Mathias Christensen‘s final BA-project. Mathias walked 250 kilometers along the Danish westcoast. He photographed the nature and told stories about the people he met and stayed at during his trip. You can see a larger selection of the pictures at the »
This week is the professional week at the Visa Pour l’image in Perpignan with lectures, meetings and a lot of exhibitions. For the first time, both DMJX-teachers of photojournalism are present at the festival. As it has almost become a tradition, Mads Greve is conducting an after-education workshop for a »
Today the fall semester was kicked of with a lecture for all photojournalist students by Swedish photographer Martin Bogren. Bogren talked about and showed photos from his books Lowlands and Tractor Boys. He also gave a peek on a new ongoing project. »
Kiên Hoàng Lê, international student from Germany, graduated this summer with a his project Veils and Hoods from an Abbey in Stühlingen, Germany. Kiên Hoàng Lê stayed one month with the brothers and sisters in the abbey and he made a warm and close story about their life with God »
The leading British photography magazine Hotshoe have published a part of Arko Datto‘s cybersex project and interviewed him about it on their website. You can read the interview here. Photo by Arko Datto. Arko made his project as his final reportage assingment this spring. »
Jeppe Bøje Nielsen’s final BA project Lourdes is among the ten projects selected for the Croatian Photo Festival Organ Vida. Jeppe Bøje Nielsen graduated in 2012 with this project about the holy city of Lourdes. The project was also recently exhibited at the Copenhagen Photo Festival this summer. 390 projects »
Marie Hald recieved the Scanpix Prize this semester for her BA project Magic City. Marie did her project in Miami about people searching for the good life. Check out Magic City here. »
When the school’s color negative developer closed for the summer we had developed 1.365 films this semester! That is a new record for the digital age (which is where we have kept track of the number) and it is more than 500 films more than the previous record of »
Julia Lindemalm, international student from Sweden, graduated in 2011 with her project Zoo World – forever apart about the paradox in the living conditions in the zoos. Now, her project is exhibited in Galleri Kontrast, Stockholm, Sweden from the 19th of June till the 18th of August. »
Tomorrow is officially the final day of school this semester – even though a few students still need to go to exams. We’re celebrating it with a project screening day where all photojournalists from all semesters show their work done on the final workshops this semester. The BA-project Cosplay by »
Friday the 7th was the official opening of the Copenhagen Photo Festival – the festival offers a huge amount of exhibitions and lectures all over town in the following weeks. Among the exhibitions is 8xPersonalProjects in Øksnehallen, which opens next Friday on the 14th of June. Four out the eight »
On 7th semester Lasse Bak Mejlvang did a project about the bicycle culture of Beira, a city in Mozambique. The story is about how bicycles play an important role in changing the lives and living conditions of the people of Beira. Now Lasse’s photos are exhibited at Copenhagen Photo Festival »
This week both our Danish and international final year students are playing a marketing game conducted by photography consultant Marc Prüst. This is a totally new kind of workshop at our school. The purpose is to prepare the students for the future and to teach them about the market mechanisms »
