The life of photojournalist and activist Dan Eldon was short but full of wanderlust. Born in London then raised in Kenya, Eldon spent his youth exploring 46 different countries around the globe, documenting his adventures in art-filled journals that carried a worldly maturity well beyond his years.
In 1992, he joined with a band of freelance journalists to cover the famine in wartorn Somalia; his photographs appeared in Time and Newsweek. Eldon was killed with three other journalists on assignment shortly after the U.S. deployed peacekeeping troops. The Journey Is the Destination is both a love song to Eldon’s 23 years of extraordinary life and a cautionary tale about intervening in messy overseas conflicts.
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