Our World, Their Lens
“Somalia’s food production system, once relatively strong, had been obliterated, a situation that was only heightened by the country’s longtime over reliance on outside aid. By the spring of 1992, a small number of aid workers and journalists who had been in the country’s interior began to share disturbing news: a famine was under way.” – Art of […]
An Excerpt from “Art of Life”: Safari
An excerpt from the book Art of Life by Jennifer New. Mtu hujua atokako, hajui aendako. – Swahili proverb (“One knows where they are coming from, not where they are going.”) To Western ears, “safari” conjures up visions of a hunting adventure: Teddy Roosevelt or Ernest Hemingway on an apocryphal sojourn, packing a couple of Remington shotguns, […]
An Excerpt from “Art of Life”: Discovery
An excerpt from the book Art of Life by Jennifer New. No one remembers exactly how the bag arrived at Mike Eldon’s home in Nairobi, only that it took several weeks after Dan’s death to get there. It was a black nylon military bag, something he’d come by in a trade with a Marine, the same way […]
A Message in a Bottle
Picture this: You’re walking along the beach. Your bare feet sink into the cold sand with each step you take. The waves are crashing and nearly reaching your toes before the water slips back into the vast ocean. Looking down, you start picking up rocks and shells that catch your attention. Looking down the beach, […]
“Dancing”
Dan Eldon was always immersed deep within his thick black journals. Whether he was doodling, pasting or writing, Dan processed and pondered life within the pages of his 17 journals that were found after he was killed. Each one gives us a glimpse of his passions and adventures. “It is foolish and hazardous not to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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