An Excerpt from “Art of Life”: Heartland

Posted by on Aug 11, 2014 in Twenty Years On
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 […]

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The Journey Is the Inspiration

Posted by on May 15, 2014 in Inspired by Dan
The Journey Is the Inspiration

Dan Eldon has impacted countless people through his life as an activist, adventurer and artist. His passion, drive, spirit and sense of wonder are deeply compelling and thoroughly inspiring. It seems like he filled every second of his 22 years of life with the type of meaningful endeavors that many of us desire to have […]

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Living To Tell The Story

Posted by on Jun 25, 2013 in Dan Eldon Legacy
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) […]

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Guillaume Bonn tells his story…

Posted by on Jun 25, 2013 in Twenty Years On
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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