As it has almost become a tradition, DMJX Photojournalism is a part of Aarhus Festival Week 2023 with a pop-up portrait exhibition at Dokk1. Thursday, August 31, ten international Photo 1 students met and portrayed people of Aarhus during the day. The images were printed and the exhibition Aarhus Portraits »
Mads Andreas Frost graduated this spring 2023 with stories about three people, who wish they could receive active euthanasia in their homes. Sunday August 20, Jyllands-posten published Mads Andreas Frost’s stories and images. »
DMJX alumni Shirin Abedi is the 2023 recipient of the Inge Morath Award handed out by the Magnum Foundation. Shirin Abedi receives the award based on her poject May I Have This Dance? that she started at DMJX during her Photo 1 study in the spring 2019. With the award, »
Tuesday, August 29, almost all photojournalism students gathered for a mutual welcome of the fall 2023 term. The welcome lecture was given by photographer Jens Juul. »
Journalist Emma Lina Kruse Jensen and photojournalist Stefan Sommer Jagd graduated in January with a project about the rare disease Body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB). This Sunday, August 27, the first chapter about Deborah was published in Avisen Danmark. »
Mikkel Hørlyck is among the 10 photographers selected to exhibit in the Nordic Village at Helsinki Photo Festival 2023. Helsinki Photo Festival runs till October 30 and consists of more than 40 exhibitions, where ten of them are dedicated to Nordic photographers. All exhibitions are within this year’s theme “Courage”. »
Jesper Houborg graduated in the spring 2022 with a project where he followed a group of young Afghan refugees and their families that had just arrived in Denmark. After his graduation, Jesper Houborg continued to follow the families and their new life in Denmark. Part of the project has been »
Hashem Shakeri is currently exhibiting both in La Gacilly, France and in Baden, Austria as part of the Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo. Hashem Shakeri and Søren Pagter visited Baden during the media days on August, 11 and 12. »
At the ceremony at Théâtre Antique, Wednesday July 5, DMJX alumni Salih Basheer was announced the winner of the Photo-Text Book Award at Rencontres Arles photo festival that is happening right now in the south of France. Salih Basheer has studied and graduated Photo I in the fall 2020 and »
Amalie Haun and Mathias Eis‘ BA-project about the Danish community living in the south of Spain is published in the July/August edition of the Danish magazine Ud & Se. »
Liv Møller Kastrup and Rikke Kjær Poulsen have exhibited their prize-winning projects from the Danish POY 2022 at ArtWeek Kerteminde, Denmark that was held at Lundsgaard Gods from June 24 to July 1. 2023. »
Saturday, June 24, Capucine Chandon opened “Biophilia: a natural life” – a one-day interactive photo exhibition and sensory experience at UngK in Aarhus. »
Salih Basheer’s project “22 Days in Between” is among the 23 shortlisted books for the Photo-Text Book Award at Rencontres Arles. The project has also been shown in De Standaard, Fisheye Magazine and Lenscratch. “22 Days in Between” is a narrative journey looking back at the loss of Salih Basheer’s »
DMJX alumni Marie Hald is currently showing a large selection of her pictures at the retrospective exhibition “Udstillet” at The Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød, Denmark. Among the exhibited images are pictures from some of Marie Hald’s DMJX projects. »
Amelie Sachs’ final Diploma Project “We Are The Granddaughters Of The Witches You Could Not Burn” is currently exhibited at Neighbours Café in Göttingen and as part of the outdoor group exhibition „Identity, Courage, Love“ in Hannover, Germany. Project description of Amelie Sachs final project:The witch hunts of the early »
Friday June 9, the spring 2023 term was concluded with the traditional screening day, where photojournalism students from all semesters showed their projects to each other. The screening day ended with a talk by WPP winner and DMJX alumni, Mohamed Mahdy, who shared his prize winning project and working methods »
Fares Zaitoon graduated from DMJX in the spring 2021 with his project “Stranger Tourist”, that also received honorable mention and a grant at the ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award for graduating DMJX students. The grant has now made it possible for Fares Zaitoon to put up a show at Darb 1718 Contemporary Art »
Wednesday evening, the Photo I students finished their magazine that includes their final projects. The magazine will be on display at DMJX and can be read online here. The magazine is made by ten international students of photojournalism during a six-week workshop at the Danish School of Media and Journalism »
DMJX alumni Mikkel Hørlyck is exhibiting part of his long-term project “Jørgen, a Mystery” at Copenhagen Photo Festival as part of The FUTURES 2023 Talents. »
As part of the opening of the Copenhagen Photo Festival, DMJX students participated in port folio reviews and talks arranged by Futures Photography Platform. »
