DMJX at Lumix Festival

The Danish School of Media and Journalism are very visible at the Lumix Festival in Hannover this weekend. More than 20 of our students are parcipating together with faculty teachers, Mads Greve and Søren Pagter. Søren Pagter is giving port folio reviews both on Friday and Saturday. And a lot »

Release: Danish online stories

Last Friday our Danish 3rd term students finished their four-week online workshop together with Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Bombay Flying Club. We’re proud to release their final online stories: Syndefaldet by Lasse Dearman and Fredrik Korfix. Til havet os skiller by Mikkel Berg and Jeppe Vejlø. Alle tiders »

Opening exhibition at CPH fotofestival

Today, we opened our 120 pictures student exhibition at Bryghuset, Carlsberg. The exhibition is a part of the Copenhagen Fotofestival running for the next 10 days. We were lucky to exhibit in the old brewery buliding, which is very beautiful. It made a wonderful background to the student images. Unfortunately »

Goodbye to International students

Last Friday and yesterday we said goodbye to our students from both international classes. Or rather: see you again, because six of the students studying at the Language of Photojournalism will continue on Advanced Visual Story Telling this autumn. And most of all the students will participate in the Lumix »

Exhibition at Copenhagen Photo Festival

Our 120 pictures large exhibition at Copenhagen Photo Festival will open at Bryghuset, Carlsberg on Thursday June the 7th at 4.30 pm – and it will be open throughout the whole festival. Photo by Marie Hald from her story Bonnie. There will be solo exhibitions by: Marie Hald – Bonnie »

Lærke Posselt SPA finalist

Lærke Posselt is one out of ten finalists in the LUCEO Student Project Award. Lærke is nominated for her 7th term project about American kids attending beauty contests. The project has been published in Politiken and will also be exhibited at the up-comming Copenhagen Photo Festival. Photo: Lærke Posselt The »

Hard work

It’s time for a number of final projects for the students on all semesters – and it’s sometimes hard work to meet the deadline. This morning Tom and Dario were taking a nap in the computer room after working all night to meet their deadline. Please note: Serious students only »

Magazine launch by second term students

Our second terms students have finished their magazine workshop and they launch their magazine called Mellemrum (the space in between) at a reception Friday the 11th of May. The eigth students have been in the south of Jutland and the magazine consists of stories from the border area. The photojournalists »

Theo Erbenius in Piel de Foto

Theo Erbenius’ photo story about the Indian kushti wrestlers is published in this month’s edition of Piel de Foto. Theo made the story as his final reportage project while he was studying at the Language of Photojournalism. »

Five new online stories from int. students

Friday, our international students from the course The Language of Photojournalism finished their online workshop. Their five stories are now released online and can be seen at our In Casu website. The students worked in pairs with the stories. And the ten students behind the work are: Filippo Menichetti and »

Nikolai Linares at WPO

This weekend Nikiolai Linares and Søren Pagter are participating in the Sony World Photography Awards in Somerset House in London. Nikolai Linares is one out of only ten students to be selected for the Student Focus Award. The ten finalist have each made a series of images on the topic »

Lærke Posselt at World Press Photo

This weekend, Lærke Posselt, first prize winner in the portrait category at World Press Photo, participated in the Award Days in Amsterdam. The Winners’ reception in Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. Lærke Posselt and the other Danish winner, Jan Dagø, with their personalized cataloques. Each winner gets a cataloque with his »

Sofie Amalie Klougart selected for Joop Swart Masterclass

World Press Photo announced earlier today the selected young photographers for this years’ Joop Swart Masterclass. Among them was Sofie Amalie Klougart who is currently doing her 7th semester. The masterclass will be held in Amsterdam in November. The theme of the masterclass is Trust. Sofie was chose among 165 »

Award Days in Amsterdam

This weekend the World Press Photo award days are held in Amsterdam – Two days of presentations made by the winning photographers. Plus, of course, the award ceremony and the opening of the official World Press Photo exhibition in Oude Kerk. Lærke Posselt, student in her final year and first »

High level among applicants

These weeks we’re assessing the applicants for both the Danish BA-education and for the two international programmes. And once again we have had a record high number of highly qualified candidates. 273 candidates enrolled for the admission test for the Danish BA-education. 177 of them fulfilled the first one-week test »

Meeting the minister for development cooperation

Yesterday, Søren Pagter met with the minister for development cooperation, Christian Friis Bach, to tell about the cooperation with photo.circle in Nepal. The meeting was a part of the ministers visit in Aarhus where he was introduced to different developing projects around the world. Søren Pagter talked about the many »

BIG prints and magazine launch

Today two groups of students exhibited their work in the aula at DMJX: The eight Danish students from third semester exhibit pictures and stories from their reportage workshop. And the prints are big and really catches the eyes of everybody passing by in the aula. The ten international students have »

Five students exhibit at the Lumix Festival

Today, the Lumix Festival released the projects that will be shown at the festival this year: 60 printed stories and 22 mulitmedia stories. Among the names were five students and student projects from DMJX: Sara Galbiati, who graduated in 2010, will exhibit her final BA project Lucha Libre about Mexican »

Winners at the Kravling award

Two students of photojournalism won at the Kravling award ceremony yesterday. Tobias Selnæs Markussen won the prize for the best photojournalistic student project with his story Autopia. Autopia tells about the car culture in the USA and is Tobias’ final BA-project from 2011. Cathrine Ertmann won together with a group »

Amy Johansson wins second prize at Swedish POY

At the Swedish POY 2012 award cermony today in Malmö Amy Johansson won a second prize in the multimedia category. Amy won with the story 88 1/2 about the american filmmaker Jack O’Connell – a story she made as her final Diploma Project at the school in 2011. »