Don Bartletti: Biography

Don Bartletti has been a photojournalist with southern California newspapers for 32 years. For the past 21 years, he has worked for the Los Angeles Times. Over his career, Bartletti has covered stories throughout California, Mexico, Central America, South America, and most recently, in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As a resident of San Diego County since high school, Bartletti is concerned with the viewpoints of migrant farm workers and borderland issues. Hundreds of his photographs on the subject have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers, and in exhibits across the nation and Mexico. One exhibit toured seven major institutions in the United States, including the Smithsonian, the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, and the Museum of Tolerance.

Bartletti has received more than 50 awards, most notably the Pulitzer Prize for "Enrique's Journey", his six-part series on migration from Latin America to the United States. He has also earned the Robert F. Kennedy Award, the Polk Award, the Scripps-Howard Foundation Award, and the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award.