Dan eldon

A page photographed from Dan Eldon's "The Journey is the Destination" with permission from the Dan Eldon Project. facebook / shop / blog

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Photographer for Reuters news agency who was murdered in Somalia in 1993 at the age of 22. On July, 12, 1993, Dan and three of his colleagues raced across Mogadishu to cover the bombing of what was thought to be General Aideed’s headquarters. In the ensuing confusion, all four young men were beaten, clubbed and stoned...

Dan Eldon

"Take it all off! I said defiantly. "What happened?" whispered the hairdresser sympathetically. "It was a man, wasn't it? "Yes," I said. "He left me." Practically bald and minus $100, I found I could laugh again. I shifted my focus from Dan's death to Dan's life and tried to live as he would have. I took more chances. I left my college, which suddenly felt claustrophobic. I applied to Columbia University and Boston University, and knew Dan would have been proud when I got in. I started…

Showcasing Dan Eldon’s many talents in Art.

Today is the twentieth anniversary of the death of Dan Eldon. He was only 22 years old. Yet already at that age he was a young man of...

A page photographed from Dan Eldon's "The Journey is the Destination" with permission from the Dan Eldon Project. facebook / shop / blog

In 1993, artist and photojournalist Dan Eldon was covering the famine and unrest in Somalia for Reuters News Agency when UN forces bombed the residence of warlord Aidid. Enraged loyalist supporters violently retaliated, murdering Eldon and three other western journalists. Although his life was short, Eldon lived his years with voracious passion, leading an aid

Dan eldon