Three students nominated for Fotokravling 11

Each year the student organisations from the three journalism educations in Denmark arrange a party and an award ceremony  to celebrate excellent student projects. The prize is called Kravling. There’s two categories: one for journalism and one for photojournalism. This year the nominated for the Fotokravling are: Mette Frandsen – »

FILTER magazine on Hybrids

The recent edition of the photography magazine FILTER focusses on hybrids in photography. Among the articles in the magazine is one about the use of mixed media in photojournalism. The head of the Dep. of Photojournalism at DSMJ, Søren Pagter has been interviewed for this article. The article is available »

Three students win first prizes at the Danish POY

Today the winners of the Press Photography of the Year 2010 were announced at an Award Ceremony at the National Library in Copenhagen. Six of our students were among the nominated photographers – three of them won first prizes. The other three won honourable second prizes. Sports Reportage Sara Galbiati »

Mads Greve and Søren Pagter handed out prizes at the Danish POY

Today the winners of the Danish Press Photography of the Year 2010 were announced at an award ceremony at the National Library in Copenhagen. DSMJ sponsors prizes for two of the winning photographers in the competition. Ass. professor Mads Greve and Head of the Dep. of Photojournalism Søren Pagter motivated »

Informations Fotopris won by Sofie Amalie Klougart

Informations Fotopris was today won by Sofie Amalie Klougart. The jury describes Sofie as a sensitive photojournalist, who is able to tell a story in way never seen before. The jury was especially impressed by her series from the annual meeting of Dansk Folkeparti. Second place was won by Morten »

Roberto Boccaccino exhibits at Brandts

Roberto Boccaccino, Italy, who graduated from our international semester in December 2009, is going to exhibit at the photo museum Brandts in Odense. Roberto will be showing his project Toy Town, which was made during his study at DSMJ. The exhibition will open on the 24th of February till the »

BA project wins third prize at POYi

Sara Galbiati, who graduated with her project Lucha Libre in 2010, have won third prize at POYi in the category Sport Picture Story with the story about Mexican wrestling. Sara Galbiati is also nominated at the Danish Press Photo of the Year 2010. Here the winners will be launched the »

The Nepal project is running

Today our partners from Photo Circle in Nepal have launched information on our first colaboration workshop in Kathmandu. This workshop is called Introduction to Visual Story Telling and is the first step of a number of activities that Photo Circle and DSMJ will run within the next year in Kathmandu. »

Mette Frandsen wins the Scanpix Prize

Mette Frandsen portrayed by Melissa Ørnstrup. Mette Frandsen, who graduated in the autumn 2010, wins the Scanpix prize for the best photojournalistic BA project. Mette Frandsen recieved the prestigious prize for her project Sin City from Las Vegas. The prize was handed out today at the graduation ceremony at DSMJ. »

Six students nominated in the Danish POY

Yesterday evening the names of the photographers nominated for the Danish Press Photo of the Year 2010 was published on the website of Pressefotografforbundet  (The Danish Press Photographers Association). Among the 23 names are six current students or students who graduated in 2010. The nomianted students are: – Mette Frandsen, »

Photo prize given by the daily Information

For the second time the daily Information launces their photo prize for Danish students of photojournalism. The prize will be given to a student who have given the readers pictures of high quality despite the daily deadlines and demands. Therefore the prize will only be given to a student who »

Søren Pagter in the Finnish POY jury

Faculty teacher and head of the Department for Photojournalism, Søren Pagter, has been appointed to the jury of the Finnish Press Photo of the Year 2010. The three persons jury will meet in the middle of January to select the best pictures made by Finnish photographers in 2010. The winners »

Mads Greve in the Danish POY jury

Facuty teacher Mads Greve will be in the jury for the Danish Press Photo of the Year 2010. Mads Greve will be judging the still picture category together with four other jury members: – Christiane Breustedt, former editor from GEO magazine.  – Leif Davidsen, journalist og writer. – Lars Krabbe, »

Ready for Christmas Holiday

Today the international students from the Advanced class had their final exams with an externatal examinator. In the afternoon we held a reception saying goodbye to all the international students who have studied with us in this autumn. Luckily a lot of them will stay and continue in the Advanced »

Diploma projects in the magazine PRIVATE

The winther editon of the photo magazine Private presents two diploma projects made by international students from DSMJ. Antonia Zennaro shows her story Down There about the Reeperbahn district in Hamburg. And Lene Münch shows her story The Secret World of Fraternities about the culture and traditions of German fraternities. »

We’re back online

Sorry! Our website has been down for the past 24 hours, but now we’re back again. The domain name www.danishphotojournalism.dk has been working all the time. »

Dennis Lehmann wins third prize

Dennis Lehmann, Danish student of photojournalism, is a part of a team of three DSMJ-students who won third prize at Danidas World Picture Competition. Together with the journalist students Nola Grace Gaardmand and Timothy K. Ahrensbach, Dennis won with the story “Home of the golden gays”. The movie will be »

Andreas Bro exchange student at Mizzou

Every year we welcome a lot of international students for our two international courses. This creates an international atmosphere here in Århus.  But our Danish students also go abroad to work as exchange students around the world. This semester we have two students at Pathshala in Dhaka, Bangladesh and one »

New magazine online

Our Danish second term students have launched their magazine made during a magazine workshop these past three weeks. All the stories in the magazine are from the Danish holiday island, Bornholm – The students visited the island for one week outside the tourist season. You can browse through the magazine »

Gold for Asbjørn Skovkjær Sand at cpoy

Again today a student from the Danish School of Media and Journalism wins at cpoy. This time Asbjørn Skovkjær Sand, who won Award of Excellence three days ago, wins gold in the category Pictorial. Asbjørn is doing his internship at Fyens Stiftstidende. The winning photo is from a project Asbjørn did »