A Hero’s Tale
Memorial Day weekend, 2012, The Dan Eldon exhibit took a trip to Telluride, CO for the world renowned Mountainfilm Festival; a symposium where filmmakers, photographers, and artists of all mediums gather every year to showcase their work to try and educate, inspire, and motivate audiences about “issues that matter, cultures worth exploring, environments worth preserving, […]
Dan Does Durango
Our newest exhibit, “The Durango Series”, debuted at Open Shutter Gallery in Durango, Colorado this past weekend to rave reviews. In addition to many exhibited prints (including ‘Thumb Print’ above) Dan’s entire journal No. 14 is on display for the Durango show until March 31st. The Durango Independent Film Festival runs from Feb 27th-Mar 3rd […]
The MIDWAY film project; a transformational experience of beauty, acceptance, and understanding.
The MIDWAY film project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch. Returning to the island over several years, […]
Dan Eldon Journals and images included in WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath
WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath to Explore 165 Years of Armed Conflict through the Eyes of Photographers Opens at the MFAH in November 2012; travels to the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and the Brooklyn Museum Houston—March 2012—In November 2012, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will debut […]
Call for Mail Art
Create your masterpiece with your take on ‘Safari as a Way of Life. Can be in any visual medium.
Images of War and Peace… twenty years on
Los Angeles, California – Dan Eldon’s art journeys on as his work will be included in WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath from November 2012 to June 2013. The exhibition opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on view November 11, 2012–February 3, 2013. Following the Houston presentation, WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY travels to the […]
Dan Eldon Press Release
Press Release: “The Dan Eldon Center is calling on all aspiring artists to create and submit an original piece of Mail Art with their take on the concept ‘Safari as a Way of Life’. Click here to read more…
Dan Eldon: Safari as a Way of Life [book]
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Publication Date: October 12, 2011 Photojournalist Dan Eldon left behind much more than the astonishing illustrated journals that would form The Journey is the Destination when he lost his life at age twenty-two while on assignment in Somalia. He also bequeathed a life story that has inspired students, teachers, artists, and creative activists—as well as a forthcoming […]
Dan Eldon: The Journey Is the Destination [book]
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Publication Date: January, 2011 The best-selling and critically acclaimed book The Journey Is the Destination, is now in paperback. Featuring a selection of over 200 pages from the journals of photojournalist Dan Eldon, it is the legacy of a young artist killed just as his creative powers were beginning to be recognized by himself and others. […]
Dan Eldon: The Art of Life [book]
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Publication Date: August, 2001 Only 22 when he lost his life on assignment in Somalia, photojournalist Dan Eldon left behind much more than the journals that became the basis for Chronicle’s best-seller The Journey Is the Destination. He left a lifetime of adventures that continue to inspire. Raised in Kenya, he took numerous expeditions across Africa […]
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