The Scarecrow
“In a dystopian fantasy world, all food production is controlled by fictional industrial giant Crow Foods. Scarecrows have been displaced from their traditional role of protecting food, and are now servants to the crows and their evil plans to dominate the food system. Dreaming of something better, a lone scarecrow sets out to provide an […]
Come Celebrate Nelson Mandela!
Dan’s Journal #7 carries the message, March for Freedom – Release Mandela. Nelson Mandela gave up the adult years of his life and sacrificed so much more for the cause of ending apartheid and bringing equal rights to his fellow South Africans. On Thursday, July 18th, Nelson Mandela will turn 95. Please join the MY […]
Let Dan be YOUR inspiration
My Desiderata…Courtesy of Dan If the journey is the destination then make sure that you enjoy the ride, knowing it is ‘foolish and hazardous’ not to dance along the way. Travel lightly as you go, smile broadly and often, filling others with your cheerfulness. And when you tell the story of your journey, tell it […]
Tim Chamberlain: An Eccentric Parabola
Tim Chamberlain is a past contributor to the “Inspired by Dan” section of our website 8 years ago! https://www.daneldon.org/dan-inspired/tim-chamberlain/ His own personal blog , Eccentric Parabola, commemorates the 20th anniversary of Dan’s passing, paying tribute to him by writing a post about Dan, his life and art, and the many ways that Dan has inspired him. […]
Living To Tell The Story
In July 1993 Reuters photojournalist Dan Eldon was killed in Somalia while covering the nation’s civil war. Aged 22, he was stoned and beaten to death alongside three of his colleagues. They died trying to tell the story of a country ravaged by conflict. Twenty years later, his mother Kathy Eldon (author of In The Heart Of Life) […]
Guillaume Bonn tells his story…
The idea of becoming a photographer always appealed to me, initially I think I thought of it as a way of recreating the life I always had with my parents, and in those days I saw photography more like an Helmut Newton, snapping pictures of naked models in remote luxurious places. That was until I […]
Witness to Wars
Dan Eldon’s journal #14 is included in WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, which is currently on exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography (Los Angeles, CA) March 3–May 26, 2013, and then travels to the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), finishing the year at the Brooklyn Museum. WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its […]
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, […]
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