Turn on LA!
Calling all Dan fans who hate predictable galas but love to be inspired! Please join the Dan Eldon Legacy team and Creative Visions Foundation for a highly original party called Turn On LA! It will be an evening of mind-blowing music, suave food, engaging people, and better (than usual) spirits! Not to mention Aloe Blacc […]
Journey is the Inspiration: Alyssa Holman
Dan Eldon’s work has influenced and inspired my work. Eldon is great at capturing the real emotions and rawness of life in Africa. This past winter, I visited South Africa to learn about the culture and the people and ended up with an amazing experience and a journal to remember my experiences. Here are a […]
Our World, Their Lenses
“After my first trip to Somalia, the terror of being surrounded by violence and the horrors of the famine threw me into a dark depression. Even journalists who had covered many conflicts were moved to tears. But for me, this was my first experience with war. Before Somalia, I had only seen two dead bodies […]
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 […]
The Journey is the Inspiration: Patrick Ahern
I am a crocheter, knitter, and knot-tier and fiber is my media of choice in creating art. I grew up in Woodland Hills, CA where my mom taught me to crochet and knit during my last year in high school; I haven’t put it down since. Crocheting pictures came out of my frustration with making […]
The Journey is the Inspiration: Shazdeh Omari
When I was a sophomore in high school in 1997, a teacher showed me Dan’s journal and let me spend the 40-minute period looking at it. I saved up money that summer and bought it from a Border’s, excited to get home and take it out of the bag. I spent hours poring over it, […]
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 […]
The Journey is the Inspiration: J. Dean
Dear Dan, I never met you, but learning about your life has resonated deep within me. I felt a connection that has no barriers when it is about another soul’s journey triumphing in the dark and ugly spaces. Your life took you to a wider World than mine has been, in which you met and […]
Tiyeo’s First News Story
One day while Rachel and I were helping carry cement blocks in Grippis, I started talking with Tiyeo, a senior in high school, about her dream of becoming a journalist. Having majored in Journalism myself, I couldn’t help but offer to bring my camera the next day to film Tiyeo’s very first newscast. It is definitely a […]
The Journey is the Inspiration: William J. Charlebois
I wish I could remember exactly how I first learned about Dan Eldon. There was probably an article in one of the many magazines my sister buys. After reading about Dan, I ordered the book The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon. The photos of Dan’s journal pages were amazing. Their content […]
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