Humanitarians who made us // Dan Eldon
“Stand on the shoulders of giants.” It’s Google Scholar’s slogan, but it could just as easily be ours. The work we’ve done and continue to do is only possible because of others who have come before us. The United Nations designated August 19th as World Humanitarian Day. It is a day to celebrate the work of […]
What we’re reading // In the Heart of Life
The Eldon’s are like family to Invisible Children. Not only because Kathy Eldon and Amy Eldon Turteltaub spoke at the 2013 Fourth Estate Leadership Summit, but because Invisible Children exists as an organization only because of the Eldon’s: Dan Eldon, specifically. Dan Eldon was a young artist, activist, and adventurer committed to documenting the horrific famine in […]
Leaving it all on the court
Photojournalist Dan Eldon spent the last months of his life in Somalia, photographing the war-torn country with a gentle touch and a powerful perspective. In 1993, as Eldon and several of his colleagues were covering a botched military raid in Mogadishu that left 74 civilians dead and 100 more injured, he and two others were stoned to death […]