An Excerpt from “Art of Life”: Intermission
An excerpt from the book Art of Life written by Jennifer New. Between May and July of 1992, Dan lacked a clear path. As usual, he filled the void with a host of schemes. Some of the crew members from the film had encouraged him to apply to UCLA’s film program and had promised him letters […]
An Excerpt from “Art of Life”: Heartland
An excerpt from the book Art of Life written by Jennifer New. As other UCLA students were getting ready for a few weeks of downtime with family and friends over the winter holiday, Dan was headed for a month of dizzying travel, romance, and decision making. Even by his standards, life was more crowded than usual. When […]
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 […]
Dan Eldon Safari News
“Gauguin in Africa” While Dan Eldon was attending Pasadena Community College in Southern California, he and his roommate Eiji Shimizu birthed the idea to raise money for a relief project for Mozambique’s civil war refugees. After making a pact to do something about it, Dan and Eiji recruited friends to form the Student Transport Aid, […]
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 […]
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