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 »
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 – »
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 »
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 »
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 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, 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 »
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 »
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 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. »
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, »
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 »
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 »
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, »
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 »
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. »
