Daniel Robert Eldon (18 September 1970 – 12 July 1993) was a British-Kenyan photojournalist, artist and activist, killed in Somalia while working as a Reuters photojournalist. His journals were published posthumously in four volumes by Chronicle Books, including The Journey Is the Destination, The Art of Life, and Safari as a Way of Life. Early life Eldon was born in London on 18 September 1970, the son of Kathy and Mike Eldon. His father was an Israel-born British citizen of Jewish descent, and his mother was an American Protestant of German and Irish descent. He had one younger sister. When Eldon was seven years old, his family moved to Nairobi, Kenya. His parents later divorced. In Kenya, Eldon initially attended a British school, before transferring to the International School of Kenya. The family was living in Kenya in 1982, during an attempted coup in the country. 12-year-old Eldon arrived back in Kenya from a summer holiday several days after the coup and witnessed some of the aftermath. In his teens, Eldon began taking pictures which were featured in local newspapers and magazines. At 14, with his sister and friends, Eldon raised $5,000 in a fundraising campaign for a young Kenyan girl, Atieno, to have heart surgery. At 15, Eldon sold handmade beaded jewelry made by a Maasai family to students and friends to support them. Around this time Eldon began creating personal journals filled with collages, photographs, and drawings, often using satire and cartoons as commentary. In 1988, Eldon graduated from the International School of Kenya, winning the International Relations and Community Service awards. He was voted most outstanding student, and addressed his class on the importance of crossing cultural barriers and caring for others. Travel and studies Eldon travelled extensively, visiting 46 countries, and studied seven languages. In the autumn of 1988, Eldon left Kenya for a job at Mademoiselle magazine in New York before university. In January, Eldon enrolled in Pasadena City College in California. That summer, he and a friend researched a journey from Nairobi to Malawi, driving a Land Rover across five countries. They often used local jails as accommodation while on the trip. Following this trip, and having transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles, Eldon set up a charity called Student Transport Aid, which raised $25,000 for a trip from a Nairobi to a refugee camp in Malawi in three vehicles. There, they