Dan Eldon was a young photojournalist for Reuters covering the civil war in Somalia in 1992 when he was caught in a crossfire and killed. The legacy of this vibrant young man lives on in the journals he left behind. Excerpts from these journals have been beautifully reproduced along with a biography exploring Dan’s life and work in a compact, sturdy edition published by Chronicle Books.

“Dan Eldon: The Art of Life” is a tome to the intersection of discovery and creativity, development and art. The works included draw heavily on the journals he began to produce at 15, as well as archival family photos and sketches from childhood. Among the defining characteristics of the young artists that come through the packed book with a punch are his love for the people of East Africa where he grew up and a lust for experience.

One is left to wonder at the moments of pause in Dan’s life, the moments of rest where he found time to capture and catalogue in such compact writing and vivid imagery the vivid records of his days.

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