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 mission across Africa, working as a graphic designer for Mademoiselle Magazine, publishing a book, directing a short film and creating 17 extraordinarily powerful volumes of art work, all before the age of 22.
In the pages that fill the bulging journals, Eldon reveals imagistic insight into his extraordinary perspective on the world. Filled with snapshots of his life growing up as a young expatriate in Kenya, explosive images taken in war-torn Somalia and detailed drawings of the world around him, the journal works blend the photographic reality with the transient ephemera of his everyday to create a vivid blueprint of Eldon’s imagination.
Agony Remedy | Angels | Birds | Boom Boom I |
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Boom Boom II | Brazilian Street Fair | By the River | Caviar |
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Characters | Clarity of Vision II | Dance | Eye Ball |
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Fire | Gauguin in Africa | Hands | Kizungu Zungu |
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Kodachrome | Ostrich | Red Army | Refuge Girls Malawi |
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Self Portrait | Self Portrait in Green | Self Portrait with Halo | Soccer Ball |
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St. George and the Dragon | Thumb Print | Thumbprint | Thunder Bomb |
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Tunnel | Victims Carriers | Wallet Kizungu | U.N. tank troop capture suspect |
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U.S. Marine points a pistol at a 15-year old | Somali youths rally around Aidid | Pakistani troops and coffins of their comrades | An American helicopter hovers |
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An American soldier patrols | A Somali girl runs | Children are searched | A U.N. tank force looks on |
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