Danish Photojournalism - News http://www.danishphotojournalism.com recent projects added to danishphotojournalism.com Wed, 15 May 2013 13:31 +0200 danishphotojournalism.com Wed, 15 May 2013 13:31 +0200 <![CDATA[More awards for Posselt, Hald & Mejlvang]]> http://www.danishphotojournalism.com/commentnews284.html

 

The PDN Photo Annual 2013 winners were recently announced. Among them were Lærke Posselt, Marie Hald and Lasse Mejlvang.

Lærke wins in the Photojournalism/Documentary category and Marie and Lasse win in the Student Work category.

 

Lærke Posselt’s work here, Marie Hald’s work here, and Lasse Mejlvangs work here.

]]> Mads Greve Wed, 01 May 2013 21:32 +0200 <![CDATA[International magazine launch]]> http://www.danishphotojournalism.com/commentnews283.html Our international students have finished their magazine workshop and launch their magazine both online and at an exhibition in the front hall at the school.

 

The exhibition opens with a small reception Friday the 3rd of May at 12.30.

 

The ten students behind the magazine are:

 

Andrew Schriver
Jasper Bastian
Natalie Becker
Massimo Caracciolo
Martina Lazzaretti
Frieder Bickhardt
Shelby Feistner
Maria Ivanova
Arko Datto


The teachers at the workshop have been:


Lars Bertelsen (photojournalism)
Lone Theils (journalism)
Susse Sommer  (layout and graphics)
Henrik Meller (layout and graphics)

]]> Søren Pagter Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:38 +0200 <![CDATA[Marie Hald wins Fotokravling]]> http://www.danishphotojournalism.com/commentnews282.html While being in Amsterdam to receive her World Press Photo prize Marie Hald won one more prize tonight.

 

At the award ceremony for the Kravling student prizes Marie Hald was announced the winner of the Fotokravling.

 

Marie Hald won with her 7th semester project about Bonnie.

 

Read more at the Kravling website.

]]> Søren Pagter Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:48 +0200 <![CDATA[Marie Hald at WPP Award Days]]> http://www.danishphotojournalism.com/commentnews281.html This weekend World Press Photo celebrates this year's winners at the annual award days in Amsterdam.

 

Marie Hald next to her prize winning portrait at Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.

 

Today, final year student Marie Hald will show her full story about Bonnie and tonight she'll receive her second prize in the portrait category at the award ceremony.

 

Marie Hald attends the award days together with faculty teacher Mads Greve.

]]> Søren Pagter Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:24 +0200 <![CDATA[Danish magazine launch]]> http://www.danishphotojournalism.com/commentnews280.html The Danish second term students have finished their magazine workshop and have launched their magazine called Hundestederne.

 

The magazine consists of eight individual stories from the Danish town called Hundested.

 

The students who have made the magazine are:

David Leth Williams
Paw Wegner Gissel
Mie Hee Christensen
Kasper Ray Eriksen
Paw Wegner Gissel
Janus Engel Rasmussen
Kirstine Edith Toft
Thomas Emil Sørensen
Carsten Svendsen

 

The teachers at the workshop have been:

Mathilde Bech - photojournalism
Hanne Mølby Henriksen - journalism
Susse Sommer - layout og graphical design
Henrik Meller - layout og graphical design

]]> Søren Pagter Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:23 +0200 <![CDATA[Five students nominated for FotoKravling 2013]]> http://www.danishphotojournalism.com/commentnews279.html Each year the FotoKravling award is given to a student for one significant photojournalism story done either at the school or during internship.

 

This year the jury has nominated five students for the FotoKravling Award. All five stories were made at the school.

 

The nominated are:

Cathrine Ertmann - for her 7th semester project "How to Die".

Lærke Posselt - for her 7th semester project "Beautiful Child".

Marie Hald - for her 7th semester project "Bonnie".

Sofie Amalie Klougart - for her 7th semester project "Swingers".

Jeppe Bøje Nielsen - for his BA-project "Lourdes".

 

The Jury for the Fotokravling was:

Sigrid Nygaard, picture editor and photographer at Information

Joachim Adrian, staff photographer at Politiken

Kristian Sæderup, freelance photographer

 

There's four different Kravling awards - apart from the one in photojournalism, there's one for journalism, one which celebrates the funny stories and finally one where the students honour the best coach during their internship.

 

The awards are handed out by the students own organisations at the three journalism schools in Denmark.

Read more at the Kravling website.

 

The winners will be announced at the award cermony, which will take place at Bremen Theatre on the 27th of April.

]]> Søren Pagter Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:53 +0200 <![CDATA[Russian master class at DMJX]]> http://www.danishphotojournalism.com/commentnews278.html This week 12 young, talented photographers from North West Russia are participating in a master class workshop conducted by Mads Nissen, photojournalist at Berlingske and Søren Pagter, head of the department of photojournalism at DMJX.

 

The purpose of the workshop is to further develop the visual and storytelling skills of the participants by giving them the chance to work on a longer project while they receive coaching.

 

Mads Nissen teaches in the class room at DMJX. Picture by Sergey Konkov

 

The first week of the master class consists of lectures and talks at DMJX in Aarhus. After this first workshop the 12 Russian photographers will work for two months on their individual stories while they recieve coaching from Mads Nissen.

 

Picture by Søren Pagter

 

In June the group will meet again in St. Petersburg to edit the stories and the outcome of the workshop will be a book and an exhibition showing the picture stories made by the participants during the master class.

 

Picture by Sergey Konkov

 

The twelve photographers at the master class are:

 

Aleksandra Demenkova

Ilya Alekseev

Victor Guseynov

Elena Ignatyeva

Alexey Kurbatov

Alexey Loshchilov

Anastasiia Rudenko

Natalia Ovchinnikova

Maksim Zmeev

Sergey Konkov

Alexey Akseshin

Viktoria Atamanchuk

 

It's the Nordic Journalist Center which has invited the Russian photographers to the master class.

]]> Søren Pagter Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:26 +0200 <![CDATA[Andreas Beck in DR2 ]]> http://www.danishphotojournalism.com/commentnews277.html Final year student Andreas Beck has been in DR2, one of the public television stations to talk about his project from South Sudan.

 

The interview is found 17:40 minutes in the programme.

 

Andreas Bech also won bronze in CPOY 2012 with his series of portraits from South Sudan.

]]> Søren Pagter Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:58 +0200 <![CDATA[Lasse Bak Mejlvang wins Information's Fotopris]]> http://www.danishphotojournalism.com/commentnews275.html At an award cermony today the newpaper Information launched the winners of Information's Fotopris which honours students who have done great work during their internship.

 

The winner was Lasse Bak Mejlvang, who did his internship at MetroXpress. Lasse won with three very different series of pictures. One story about the rockband D:A:D, another about the financial crisis in New York and finally a story from Manilla, where the picture below is from. The winning port folio can be seen at Information's fotoblog.

 

Picture by Lasse Bak Mejlvang.

 

Second place went to Mathias Christensen, who did his intern at Politiken. And third place went to Dennis Lehmann, Berlingske.

 

]]> Søren Pagter Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:51 +0200 <![CDATA[Third term students exhibit at the school]]> http://www.danishphotojournalism.com/commentnews274.html Today, our third term students finished their reportage workshop by exhibiting their stories in the aula at the school.

Seven stories from totally different like Denmark, Spain, Gaza, Tanzania and Svalbard.

 

Picture by Søren Pagter.

 

The students behind the exhibiting are:

Sofia Busk

Charlotte Nørregaard

Simone Pedersen

Jonas Olufson

Jonas Fogh

Simone Pedersen

Tor Birk

Peter Jørgensen

 

Picture by Søren Pagter.

 

The seven students will in the following weeks apply for internship.

 

Peter Hove, staff photographer at Politiken conducted the workshop together with Søren Pagter.

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