About Eliza & Madelyn
Eliza Deacon, originally from the UK, has lived in Africa for 18 years. Her love of photography started in the early 90s whilst working as a picture editor on the London desk of Reuters News Agency. It was very much due to her time there that she started her travels to far-flung places: Southern Sudan, the old Soviet Union and then Bosnia & Herzegovina, before spending 9 years in the company of elephants in Botswana. Now living in Tanzania, her photography has appeared in the UK and international press and she is about to throw herself into a full-time photography and graphic design career. She is also a contributing photographer to Getty Images.
She and her husband-to-be, a coffee farmer, live between two mountains, Meru & Kilimanjaro, with their 450 acres of arabica coffee spread out on the foothills of “Kili”. With mountains at her back and wide open space spread out in front of her, she can’t imagine life not spent on this continent. Eliza’s website
Madelyn Mulvaney is a writer, photographer, poet and the creator of the “Persisting Stars’ Photography e-courses. Her work is represented by Getty Images and can be seen on book covers and in print around the world. She is passionate about morning coffee, polaroids, swing dancing, the sea, vinyl records, vermilion and violet, indian food and looooooooooong roadtrips.
She lives in a house by the sea on the Pacific Westcoast, Canada with her beautiful son and daughter and a labradoodle named Roxy. Madelyn is currently writing her book ‘How to milk butterflies’ ~ morning coffee and the creative life’ ~ a guide to jumpstarting creativity.
