We are excited to share with you that our new forum is now online and ready to work. This forum is for members from all groups since 1992 and up till today. Visitors may visit and read every single forum and thread. But its only our members who will actually »
Peter Helles who is currently working on his BA assignment has received a working scholarship from Danida. Together with journalist Mira Kellermann, he is going to Kenya to do a film with the working title: Susan and her magnificent Message Service. Each year Danida hands out 10 scholarships of D.kr. »
Recently I wrote about our co-operation with Photo.Circle in Nepal and that our first project – a one month basic course in photojournalism – had been a succes. Now some of the pictures from the course are launched online – made by the 20 young Nepali photographers who attended the »
The trade union magazine Fagbladet 3F has bought and published a story by Danish student Camilla Rønde. During the magazine workshop on 2nd semester Camilla and her class mates went to the island of Bornholm to do individual stories and published them in an online student magazine, Furthest to the »
Today I received great news from a former int. student, Andrew Mackinnon, who studied at DSMJ in the spring 2010. Andrew have won Student Photojournalist Story of the year in Australia & New Zealand with a online project he made while studying in Aarhus.The story has also been selected to »
Almost five years ago Sofia Wraber and Nanna Kreutzmann made an extraordinary visual project during their final semester at DSMJ. The two photojournalists portrayed 101 men within a project period of four weeks. And it was not just 101 random men, it was one man representing each age from zero »
Our nine international students from the programme The Language of Photojournalism have just finished a three week magazine workshop where each of them have made a story including pictures, text and layout. The entire magazine Europe’s New Challenges is now available online and Friday the 15th of April at 1pm »
The Danish third term students have just finished a four week long reportage workshop with photographer Gregers Tycho from Jyllands-Posten. As it’s the tradition the students exhibit their reportage stories in the aula at DSMJ before applying for internships. We opened the exhibition this Friday and the following weeks the »
Wednesday the 6th of April Søren Pagter was lecturing at Göteborgs-Posten. The topic was online publishing and 50 members of the editoral staff attended the meeting – both members of the photo department and staff from the news room. Göteborg-Posten is one of those rare newspapers which hasn’t started making »
Wes Rowe, international student who graduated from DSMJ last year have won second prize in student photographer of the year in San Fransisco Bay Area. Wes Rowe submitted a portfolio with images made while studying at DSMJ. The winning portfolio is available here. »
Can you make an exhibition with around 13,000 portraits? Yes, you can. Every evening 13,000 unique children portraits are projected on the Red Fall monument in Randers. Head of the dep. of photojournalism, Søren Pagter, is one of the makers of the project – Børn i centrum (kids in focus). »
We are thrilled to announce that our site now has 50 active members and more than 200 projects online. Keep them comming! Before summer we’ll update the website with a great collection of links and a debate forum for the members. »
The recent number (no. 13 – 2011) of the Finnish magazine Photo Raw focusses on the Finnish Press Photo of the Year 2010. In the magazine there’s an interview with Aino Salmi, international student who won first prize in the category Photo Essay. Søren Pagter, jury member at the Finnish »
A readers’ meeting at Fyens Stiftstidende in Odense this afternoon focussed on photojournalism. The newspaper had invited Peter Hove and Asbørn Sand – both prize winning photographers at this years Press Photo of the Year – to show their pictures and tell about their work. Asbjørn Sand is currently doing »
This year we’ve received 260 applicants for the Danish BA programme. This is the highest number ever. Last year we had 213 applicants which was also a record. This week the applicants work on their first admission test. They have to make a series of images on the topic strength. »
What a great week! Last week was hectic and inspiring with a lot of guests and lectures at the school. Wednesday our own international student, Ahmed Hayman from Egypt, gave a lecture about his coverage of the events in Cairo in February. Since Ahmed has worked as a photojournalist both »
Friday evening at a party and award ceremony, Niels Christensen won the Foto-kravling for his project “Drengeliv” (boys’ lifes). The Foto-kravling is an award given by the student organisations from the three journalism educations in Denmark to honour excellent student projects. The jury were three photographers: Ole Steen, Thomas Lekfeldt »
These weeks photographer Mimi Chakarova from Berkeley University is visiting DSMJ. Tuesday the 22nd of March Mimi Chakarova gave a lecture about her prize winning documentary project, The Price of Sex and she’ll work with our 2nd term students evaluating some of their assignments. We’re lucky that Mimi Chakarova will »
This week you might bump into Marcus Bleasdale, VII, or Sigrid Nygaard, Information. They are both conducting workshops here. Sigrid is doing portraits with International-Photo I and Marcus is doing reportage with 8. Semester/International-Photo II. »
Yesterday evening in Helsinki the winners of the Finnish Press Photography of the Year 2010 were released. Two of our international students were among the winners: Aino Salmi won first prize in the category Photo Essay with a story about the young man Rick who lives alone in his flat »
