Judging at the 70th POY has begun and the first day brought an Award of Excellence for Lasse Mejlvang in the Feature category. Lasse’s photo is from Smokey Mountain in Manila, the Philippines. Smokey Mountain, a landfill site, has become home for more than 5,000 families. They have built their own houses »
Today, at the graduation ceremony Morten Germund received the Scanpix Prize for the best photojournalistic BA-project. Morten Germund received the prize for his project Bring Me Home, Ohio about JC og his three adopted sons Jimmy, Robert og Dylan. Each semester the picture agency Scanpix hands out a prize for »
Tonight, the jury launched the names of the photographers nominated at this year’s Danish POY. Among the 26 nominated photographers are five students: – Sofie Amalie Klougart, final year student who are planning to do her BA this spring. – Lærke Posselt, final year student who need to make her »
Today, on the last day of the autumn semester at DMJX, we’re having a full day of project screening. All students from all semesters show their work made on the final workshops this year – starting with work made by second term Danish students and ending with the final Diploma »
Lærke Posselt’s project Beautiful Child produced on her 7th semester is awarded a 4th prize at Unicef photo of the year. More info here. »
New York Times’ Lensblog publishes photos from Jeppe Bøje’s bachelor project about the French town of Lourdes. See Lensblog here. »
Today Danish daily Information publish Marie Hald’s story about Bonnie who is a mother and a prostitute. The story is also online. Read it here and see the Marie’s work here. Last month Marie was awarded the gold medal of the Documentary category in cpoy for this story. »
The magazine Journalisten has asked Søren Pagter, head of the Department of Photojournalism, to comment on Times’ Best Photojournalism 2012 selection. You can read the interview (in Danish) with Søren Pagter on here on Journalisten.dk. »
Faculty teacher Mads Greve’s book Blind Date was published by Postcart Edizioni in Rome, Italy, last month, and now Mads is visiting Italy for book presentations in Rome and Milan. In Milan on December 8 Mads will show photos and have a conversation with Emanuela Mirabelli, photo editor of Marie »
As the last thing before beginning the project which finishes the first year in school the Danish 2nd semester finished a portrait workshop last week. Three weeks of only shooting portraits gave some nice photos. Here is a few examples. Photo above by Peter Jørgensen. Photo below by Jonas Fogh. »
Saturday Politiken had an interview with Sofie Amalie Klougart about her photos of swingers which was made for the Joop Swart Masterclass. The interview (in Danish) is also online. You can find it here and see photos here. And there’s also interviews with master class photographers at the World Press »
Scandinavian photo agency Moment has announced three new members among them Lærke Posselt. Former student Thomas Lekfeldt is a long time member of the agency. See the announcement here. »
This weekend faculty teacher Mads Greve will visit Lithuania to speak and show his work at the 6th International Press Photo Festival/Vilnius Photo Circle in Vilnius. Saturday there will be lectures by four European photographers and in the evening the award ceremony of The Circle of Life contest will take »
Magnus Holm wins the final and most important category at cpoy – portfolio with a series of images from very different assignments. At this screencast, you can hear how the news was released by Rick Shaw to Magnus in the middle of the night. Congratulations, Magnus. »
The sixth gold medal to one of our students at this year’s cpoy has been given to: Marie Hald for her 7th semester project about the prostitute Bonnie. Marie Hald wins in the documentary category. In the same category Lærke Posselt wins bronze for her story about child beauty contests, »
The succes at cpoy continues: Magnus Holm has won gold in the category international pictures story with a series about homeless children in Kharkiv, Ukraine. And in the same category Tor Birk Trads has won Award of excellence with a series of Shia Muslims who commemorate the Day of Ashura »
This is going to be our most successful year at cpoy. Two more winners from yesterday’s judging: Gold for Nikolai Linares in the category Interpretive Project with a fashion series. And bronze for Andreas Beck in the same category with a series of portraits from the refugee camp jamam, Sudan. »
Tobias Nørgaard wins gold in cpoy for his series The Wild Boys. Tobias’ gold medal is in the category Domestic Picture Story. In the same category Asbjørn Sand is awarded an Award of Excellence for his story Roll Whatever. Both stories where earlier this year exhibited at the German Lumix »
Bjarke Bo Olsen has won gold in the category general news with a picture from the funeral of 18 year old Cem Aydin who was beaten to death near his home in Copenhagen. This is the second gold medal for our students at this year’s cpoy. »
More great news from the cpoy-judging: Magnus Holm has won Award of Excellence in the spot news category at cpoy. »
