Don Bartletti

Bartletti was born in 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he received his Associate of Arts degree in 1968 from Palomar College. He served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in Vietnam from 1968-1971.^[1]

Bartletti worked as a photographer with the Oceanside Blade Tribune until 1977, then with the San Diego Union until 1983. He joined the Los Angeles Times as a photographer in 1983.^[2]

Bartletti won the Pulitzer Prize for his "photo essays about young Central American migrants" in 2003, and he became a finalist for his photo series on Mexican farmworkers in 2015.^[3] He won more than 40 awards, including the San Diego Press Club, Los Angeles Press Club, National Press Photographers Assn., AP, UPI, and the Los Angeles Times Editorial Award.^[4]