This week 12 young, talented photographers from North West Russia are participating in a master class workshop conducted by Mads Nissen, photojournalist at Berlingske and Søren Pagter, head of the department of photojournalism at DMJX. The purpose of the workshop is to further develop the visual and storytelling skills of »
Final year student Andreas Beck has been in DR2, one of the public television stations to talk about his project from South Sudan. The interview is found 17:40 minutes in the programme. Andreas Bech also won bronze in CPOY 2012 with his series of portraits from South Sudan. »
At an award cermony today the newpaper Information launched the winners of Information’s Fotopris which honours students who have done great work during their internship. The winner was Lasse Bak Mejlvang, who did his internship at MetroXpress. Lasse won with three very different series of pictures. One story about the »
Today, our third term students finished their reportage workshop by exhibiting their stories in the aula at the school. Seven stories from totally different like Denmark, Spain, Gaza, Tanzania and Svalbard. Picture by Søren Pagter. The students behind the exhibiting are: Sofia Busk Charlotte Nørregaard Simone Pedersen Jonas Olufson Jonas »
In the recent edition of the trade magazine Journalisten Cathrine Ertmann and Marie Hald write about how photojournalism is valued and paid in Danish newspapers. The background for the commenting article is Marie Hald’s prize winning story about Bonnie. Marie Hald sold the story for D.kr. 4000 to a Danish »
This week, photographer Jon Lowenstein from Noor Agency is teaching our final year students in order to prepare them for their final BA-projects. Jon Lowenstein portrayed by Søren Pagter in front of one of his polaroid pictures in medium format from the Southside, Chicago project. Thursday, Jon Lowenstein lectured for »
The Danish POY exhibition has started it’s tour around Denmark. First stop is Aarhus where the mayor opened the exhibition at the arts museum ArOS, yesterday. In his opening speech the mayor, Jacob Bundsgaard, praised DMJX and especially it’s photojournalism students for making world class photojournalism. He honoured the five »
After the announcement of Marie Hald’s winning picture, yesterday, the news is in all the media today. Marie Hald receiving the applause from her fellow colleagues. Picture by Søren Pagter. Every newspaper brings the picture of the year and the story about a student winning this title. In Poltiken all »
What a fantastic ending of the award ceremony at the Danish POY, today. Marie Hald won the most prestigious prize of them all, when she at the prize ceremony in the National Library was awarded the Picture of the Year 2012. Picture by Marie Hald Marie Hald won with a »
Three 7th semester projects won three of the main reportage categories today at the award ceremony for the Danish POY. Picture by Sofie Amalie Klougart Sofie Amalie Klougart won first prize in the Open Category with her story about swinger clubs in Denmark. This story is also made as a »
Yesterday, more than 500 people visited our school at the yearly open school event, where interested people and future applicants can hear about our many different programmes and meet the students working with all different kind of medias. Almost 100 of the guests visited the department of photojournalism to receive »
Jonathan Grevsen’s BA-project, made in the autumn 2012, is in Politiken this Sunday the 24th of February. The project is called “Når Lykken Forsvinder” (When Happiness Disappears) and is about the people living in the very first apartment building on Amager in Copenhagen. The building called “Lykken” will be torn »
Sunday the 17th of february Politiken published the pictures from Mie Brinkmann’s seventh semester project made in the autumn 2012. The pictures are published together with articles about women working as prostitutes in Denmark – written by the journalist Frauke Giebner. The different chapters are also available online at Politiken.dk. »
World Press Photo announced this years’ winners today including four Danish photographers. Among them Marie Hald who won a 2nd prize singles in Observed Portraits (photo above). Marie is on the 8th semester and the portrait of Bonnie from Marie’s series Bonnie was shot while Marie was on the 7th »
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. »
