Magazine launch

Our international students studying at the course The Language of Photojournalism have just finished a magazine after a four week magazine workshop. The ten international photographers have worked with individual stories under the subject: Challenges of Europe. They have done all the work from scratch: research, photographing, writing, editing and »

Fotografisk salon, Aarhus

A group of people in Aarhus have organized a club for students of photography and others who’re interested in the broad specture of photography. The club is called Fotografisk Salon, Aarhus. The purpose of the club is to arrange lectures that can inspire and create a debate, for instance about »

Welcome with a lecture by Andrei Polikanov

Now, all students of photojournalism are back at school. This last Thursday we had our traditionel welcomming reception for all photo students. We had the chance to say hello to everybody and the students could meet across the different semesters. We also had an inspiring lecture about contemporary Russian photography »

Søren Pagter back in Nepal

Editing at photo.circle This week Søren Pagter will be at photo.circle in Kathmandu, Nepal to conduct a workshop together with photojournalist Mads Nissen. The workshop is the final part of a master class for 12 Nepali photographers. The 12 photogrpahers have been working for two months with the theme evolution »

New feature: Link collection

We’re proud to announce that we have a new feature on Danish Photojournalism: a link collection where the links are sorted in different categories and each link has a short description. This makes it easy to navigate between the many links. As a member you can also suggest a link »

Canon Prize to Nina Weymann-Schulz

Nina Weymann-Schulz (Germany) who finished our Advanced Visual Story Telling this spring has won the Canon ProfiFoto Award in Germany. Nina won with her visual project from Chinatown in New York – a project that she made here at DSMJ. The award is a 2000 € scholarship and a publication »

A great selection of online stories

On the new website In Casu we have made a collection of online stories told by students at DSMJ. Each semester we run two multimedia workshops together with Poul Madsen and Henrik Kastenskov from Bombay Flying Club. On these workshop our international and Danish students produce a lot of high »

Søren Pagter on national television

On Monday the 1st of August Søren Pagter will be giving photographic advice in the television programme Aftenshowet on DR1, national television. A viewer has written to the show to ask for advice in order to become better at making pictures. In the programme Søren Pagter will give some basic »

Lasse Bak Mejlvang giving photographic advice on national TV

On Go’ Morgen Danmark, a morning talkshow on the national Danish TV2 last week, Lasse Bak Mejlvang gave advice on how to shoot photos when on vacation.  To prove his points Lasse used a small digital camera and showed photos shot at Roskilde Festival. Check out the show here. »

DSMJ students selected for Eddie Adams workshop

Six current and former students have been selected to participate in the Eddie Adams Workshop October 2011. The students are: – Sonja Och, Germany, who graduated our Advanced Visual Story Telling Programme this summer. – Eve Edelheit, US, who studied as an exchange student at our Language of Photojournalism programme »

Galbiati and British Journal of Photography

At the website of British Journal of Photography Sara Galbiati shows her BA project, Lucha Libre. You will also find an interview with Sara, where she talks about the project and about the school. Sara did her project in the spring of 2010 and it won a first prize at »

Scanpix prize for Peter Helles

At the ceremony for the graduating photojournalists and journalists today Peter Helles was awarded the Scanpix Prize for the best photojournalism BA. Peter received the award for his project Supernormal, where he uses statistics to find the most average within different fields, and in the photos shows the average Danes. »

Group sketch

It’s tradition to make a group picture to remember your fellow students by – and our international students from The Language of Photojournalism have made one group image every time they’ve had a new teacher or guest lecturer. Then today I saw a new version of the group image – »

Farewell reception for Photo 2 students

Today we had to say goodbye to our ten international students who have been studying at Advanced Visual Story Telling. Most of the students have been with us for a whole year, since they have also participated in the Language of Photojournalism programme. All students grauduated their exams yesterday and »

Nikolai Linares wins nature competition

Nikolai Linares has won a competition with the theme Nature without man with this picture from the Wadi Rum Dessert in Jordan. The competition was launched by the international magazine Youth Time, Prague, Czech Republic. »

DSMJ at Copenhagen Photo Festival

Even though DSMJ doesn’t have it’s own student exhibition at the comming Copenhagen Photo Festival the school is represented at some of the exhibitions around the city: Mette Frandsen is showing her prize winning BA project Sin City at Bryghuset in Photo City. Mette Frandsen graduated last year and won »

Katie Currid in Eurocities Book

This picture by international student Katie Currid (US) has been selected to represent Aarhus in the Eurocities book. Aarhus is a part of a Eurocities network of more than 140 European cities. This network will publish a book with a picture from each city. Katie Currids picture is a part »

Master Class with Mads Nissen in Nepal

We have selected and announced the participants for the Master Class for Nepali photographers. Photojournalist Mads Nissen, Berlingske Media and a former student will run the workshop from the 12th of June. The selected photographers are: Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka, Kishor K Sharma, Narendra Shrestha, NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, Nirman Shrestha, Phurpu »

New York Photo Award for Lene Münch

Lene Münch, Germany, who studied at DSMJ last year have won the student category Photographic Book in this year’s New York Photo Awards. Lene Münch handed in her project about German fraternities – a project made while studying at DSMJ. »

Student magazine from Orø

Our Danish second term students went to the Danish Island Orø for one week during their magazine workshop and we’re proud to launch their magazine called Den bedre halvdel/The Better Half. The students behind the magazine are: Tine Sletting Jakobsen, Lars Just, Torkil Adsersen, Jesper Mortensen, Marcus Trappaud Bjørn and »