Today at the ceremony for the graduating photojournalists Astrid Dalum was awarded the Scanpix Prize for best photojournalistic BA project.

Astrid’s project Jeg er kvinde (I am woman) explores women and their relation to their bodies.

“The portraits contains a vulnerability and it takes credibility and empathy to make the women participate” explain Scanpix in the reasons for giving the prize to this project. 

Check out the project here.

The winning pictures can be seen at Ahmed's facebook site.

Ahmed Hayman has been studying at DSMJ for two semesters in 2011.

The winners will be announced at the award ceremony in Malmö on the 16th March.

- Nicolai Linares' story Dreams of a New Cairo is shown over three spreads. Nicolai has finished his final workshops in 2011 and in 2012 he's going to make his final BA.

- Prasiit Sthapit, one of the participants from our Master Class in Nepal, is represented with his story The New Silk Road.

- Jan Rosseel, international student from Belgium, shows his story No Budget Cup.

The magazine is avaialble online here.

The list included six students from our school:

Liv Høybye Jeppesen, currently doing her intern at Jyllands-Posten.

Christian Klindt Sølbeck, who will graduate this January.

Dennis Lehmann, currently doing his intern at Berlingske Media.

Jeppe Bøje Nielsen, who's in his final year and will start his 7th semester this spring.

Magnus Holm, currently doing his intern at Politiken.

Tobias Nørgaard Pedersen, who's at 7th semester.

In all 21 still and video photographers were nominated this year. But it's still a secret which prizes the photographers will receive and for which pictures.

This will be revealed at an award ceremony on the 2nd of March at the Royal Library in Copenhagen.

Read more about the Danish POY at Union of Press Photographers' website.

Congratulations to you all.

The story starts appoximately 17,40 minutes in the news boradcast.

The published story consists of vertical pictures from Chinatown in New York and it was made as a Visual Project while Nina was studying at DSMJ in the spring 2011.

The story can be seen from page 34 and is also available online in the e-reader edition of the magazine.

In 2011 Nina Weymann-Schulz won the Canon Profifoto prize with this series of images.

The prize was a Fuji FinePix X100 camera.

James is now back in Kenya where he's establishing a photo resource center to assist promising photographers and multimedia communicators in Kenya and the greater East African region. The center is called PMI-EA.

The magazine is available as epaper here.

Udvikling focusses on Danish development projects around the world and is published by Danida.