Our World, Their Lens
“It was exploring the unknown and trying to make it known to the rest of the world that led to Dan’s death. In the months before he died he made a name for himself covering the civil war in Somalia. Dan took searing images of the conflict’s innocent victims — skeletal children and starving men […]
An Excerpt from “Art of Life”: Arriving in Blantyre
An excerpt from the book Art of Life by Jennifer New. In the last week of the trip, Dan put a new sticker on Deziree’s bumper: “Positive Vibrations.” They needed the sentiment as they skirted the Mozambique border on their way to Bantyre. The area had a trashed, desolated look. The purpose of the trip, largely overlooked […]
Our World, Their Lens
It’s that day of the year that everyone whips out their old American flag T-shirt to attend the local parade, grill out and play corn hole with the family in the backyard, and end the night looking up at a brilliant display of fireworks. This day to rep our red, white and blue represents so much more […]
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 […]
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: Mary Beth Shaw
I first learned of Dan Eldon when I lived in California. One of my art posse had watched a special about him on TV and told me about it. I bought Kathy Eldon’s book and examined each page carefully. It was 2001 and I was a budding collage artist. Truth be known, I couldn’t […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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