Søren Pagter has been selected as nominator for the World Press Photo's Joop Swart Masterclass.

Each year, the World Press Photo selects 12 young, promising photographers for their prestigious masterclass. To be able to select among talented photographers from all over the world, the World Press Photo has restructured their nominating system. Now, they want a large group of nominators from across the world to co-operate with them in the nominating process.

Søren Pagter will, each year, nominate one or two photographers for the Joop Swart Masterclass and he'll assist his nominees in making their port folio for the selection process.

The first young photographers will be nominated in the first couple of months of 2014.

Today Sofia Busk was on the talkshow Lounge on Lorry talking about her project Black Birds, which won a gold medal at CPOY earlier this month.

See the show here.

Nora Klein exhibits her final diploma project Where Are All The Colours Gone in Berlin next week.

Picture from the project Where Are All The Colours Gone by Nora Klein.

The project is about depression and will be exhibited at the biggest convention of the German Association of
Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. The exhibition runs from Wednesday til Saturday in The International Congres Center (ICC) in Berlin. You can read about the project here (in German).

Nora made her project in the spring semester 2013.

Mario Wezel has his story Living With Down Syndrome published on CNN World online. 

Mario Wezel made the story as his final diploma project at DMJX this spring.

Our Danish second term students have just finished their magazine workshop and after some long hours working on the stories and the layout, they can launch their magazine today.

The magazine consists of stories from the island Fur in Limfjorden in the north of Denmark.

The second term students eating lamb chops in an evening break in the middle of the layout work. Picture by Susse Sommer.

The students will celebrate their magazine at a reception today, Friday at 12.30 in the front hall at DMJX.

The eight photojournalists behind the magazine are:
Ida Munch
Sophia Juliane Lydolf
Lasse Kofoed
Simon Skipper
Jens Henrik Daugaard
Simon Læssøe
Tróndur Dalsgaard
Laust Jordal.

Teacher at the workshop have been:
Mathilde Bech - photojournalism
Marcus Aggersbjerg - journalism
Susse Sommer - graphic and layout
Henrik Meller - graphic and layout

Last week our international students finished a three week web-documentary workshop conducted by Henrik Kastenskov and Poul Madsen from Bombay Flying Club.

In pairs the students produced short web-documentaries from Aarhus. The web-documentaries are now ready online and can be seen by clicking on the thumbnails below.

On his seventh semester Andreas Beck made a story about child labour in the gold mines of Mali.

The project was made in co-operation with the organisations Dan-watch and Ibis. Andreas' pictures and a video are used in a new report about how child labour is a part of the cell phone industry. The report is published on Dan-watch's webiste and also in Politiken and MetroXpress this wednesday.

Andreas Beck talks about covering the child labour story in the national Radio 24Syv.

This fall Mads has been a member of the jury at the two international competitions at Vilnius Photo Circle at the 7th International Press Photo Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania - the main competition The Circle of Life and the Homework competition for young photographers under the age of 30.

See the list of winners and nominees here.

This weekend the CPOY jury has judged the multimedia categories and for the first time DMJX students have won in this division of the competition.

Jen Tse, international student from Canada, won Silver in the category Solo Journalist Multimedia Story with her story Sewer Child. Jen made the story as her final reportage project when she graduated our Photo 1 programme in December 2012. Jen Tse continued on the Photo 2 programme in the spring 2013.

Picture by Jen Tse

Charlotte de la Fuente and Jonas Olufson won Bronze in the category Multimedia Project with their story Din for Evigt (Yours forever). The story was made during their third semester web-documentary workshop conducted by Bombay Flying Club.

Charlotte de la Fuente is right now interning at Jyllands-Posten and Jonas Olufson is interning at Ekstra Bladet.

The fourth annd final day of the still picture division at the CPOY gave one more prize to a DMJX student.

Morten Germund won Award of Excellence in the Portfolio category. Yesterday, Morten Germund also won Bronze in the category: Domestic Picture Story. Morten Germund graduated in January 2013.

Robert is adopted. He is 18 years of age. If he wasn't adopted he would properly be one out of 30.000 children in the U.S who is "Ageing out" in the foster care system every year. Left to themselves without support. There are 400.000 children in the foster care system. Picture by Morten Germund.

Again, the DMJX students made a fantastic result at the CPOY's still picture categories: 12 prizes for eight different students. Two of the prizes were of Gold, two of Silver, three of Bronze and five Award of Excellence. Almost as good as last year's wild succes, where DMJX students won 13 prizes - 7 of them were of gold.

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all of you for participating.

The following days the CPOY jury will judge the multimedia categories.