Sakari Piippo, international student from Finland, who studied at DMJX this spring, has won Young Press Photographer of the Year in Finland. The prize is given by the The Finnish Press Photographers’ Association and the association said in their motivation for the prize: “Piippo has a ability to think, to »
Maria Fonfara graduated in 2009 with her BA-project about love and sexuality among elderly people. Back then her project recieved the Scanpix prize for the best photojournalism project. Maria Fonfara continued to work on the project and in 2011 she exhibited the pictures at the Copenhagen Photo Festival. Yesterday, Maria »
Jeannette Pardorf graduated back in 2008 with her book project “The King of India – and all the others from the brewery in Valby”. After her graduation the book with stories from the old Carlsberg brewery were published. Now you can see the portraits of the brewery workers at an »
Søren Pagter is currently in St. Petersburg, Russia to plan a master class for young North West Russian photographers. The master class will start in April 2013 and the participants will meet both in Denmark and in Russia. Their work will be from Russia and the outcome will hopefully be »
The world’s largest and most prestigious photo competition for students – College Photographer of the Year – calls for entries. Deadline is Sunday the 7th of October. Last year was a great succes for our school. We had winners in 9 out of the 13 still photo categories. Our students »
Mette Frandsen’s BA project, Sin City, from 2010 is published in BURN magazine right now. Mette Frandsen portrayed by Melissa Ønstrup. Mette Frandsen graduated in autumn 2010 with her project Sin City from Las Vegas and in 2011 she won the Scanpix prize for best BA-project and second prize in »
Yesterday, Monday the 18th of September Søren Pagter was portayed in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The article is a part of a series of portraits about people who will teach at the people’s university this autumn and winther. »
Three spreads in the German Fotomagazin about Danish photojournalism, Danish photojournalists and the school. »
In the August edition of the German “Fotomagazin”, the magazine ran a big article about Danish photojournalism under the title “Dänemarks Schule der Stars” – Denmark’s School of Stars. The magazine presents former and present students from our school: Lærke Posselt, Nikolai Linares, Morten Gemrund and Mads Nissen. And Søren »
Mads Greve, faculty teacher in photojournalism, is participating at Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan this week. Mads Greve is conducting an in-service workshop for Danish photographers. The participants will meet with a lot of the exhibiting photographers in Perpignan and get an unique insight in their work and thoughts. It’s »
Monday, next week, all the students of photojournalism are at the school. This is almost the only time during the whole semester that everybody is present at the same time. Therefore we’ll arrange a mutual welcome for everybody with a lecture by photographer Kent Klich. We’re looking forward to seeing »
Mathias Christensen, Danish final year student, exhibits two stories about North American Indians at the National Museum in Copenhagen. The first story is about the living conditions in the Crow Creek reservation. The other story is a b/w series from a pow wow dance festival. This story will also be »
This summer, Asbjørn Sand, student in his final semester, won the International Award ONTHEMOVE at Cortona On The Move Photograhy Festival in Viaggio, Italy. Asbjørn won with his story Roll Whatever. Asbjørn was awarded by the jury for being able to render, in a creative and personal way, the theme »
Jonas Opperskalski, international student from Germany, has his final diploma project published in September edition of the German Neon Magazine. The project is the main story in the 250,000 copies’ magazine and is spread over nine pages. The title of the story is “Letters from Hell” and it’s about Syrian »
Sofie Amalie Klougart, final semester student, is published in this month’s edition of the British Journal of Photography. You can read the interview with Sofie Amalie on the news blog on her own website. This spring Sofie Amalie was also selected for the Joop Swaart Master class. »
If you are still shooting with a 5D Mark III, you might rethink. Chances are you’re being outdated. It seems that film is back. Our old beloved developer counts the number of films being developed, and the curve has been going straight up since we started noting the number of »
Louise Leth-Espensen, who has just graduated her BA-exam this June, has recieved a Danida world picture scholarship. Louise applied for the scholarship together with Miriam Lykke Schultz – and they’re are going to Tanzania to do their project. Louise and Miriam are still doing the research on their story, so »
Fabian Weiss, international student from Germany, won earlier this year first prize in the category Series at Objektiv – the Austrian Preis for Press Photography. Fabian won with the story Love Whispers in China about how to find the right partner in the modern China. The story was made during »
Morten Germund, 7th semester student, wins bronze at Pris de la Photographie Paris (PX3) in the sports category with a series of pictures from a Hubertus hunt. »
At the graduation ceremony today, Malene Korsgaard Laritsen was awarded the Scanpix Prize for best Danish BA-project in photojournalism. Malene won with her project If I can make i there – a series of stories that focus on the dreams of young upcomming artists in New York. The project consists »
