Don Bartletti is Southern California based photojournalist. His 32-year career at the Los Angeles Times and 10 years prior with other San Diego County newspapers took him throughout the United States and around the world for news. Don is a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist dedicated to creating photo essays, videos, exhibits, lectures and guest teaching to promote a greater understanding of causes and consequences of illegal immigration into the United States from Mexico and Central America. —- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/matt-brown57/support
Central American youths, often facing deadly danger, stow away on freight trains to travel north to the United States. This essay by Los Angeles Times staff photographer Don Bartletti chronicles the journey of Enrique, who traveled to the United States alone from Honduras as a teenager in search of his mother. The project was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
Los Angeles Times photojournalist Don Bartletti (a San Diego native) began taking pictures of undocumented Mexican immigrants towards the end of the 1970s, well before illegal immigration became a high-profile, hot button issue. He eventually expanded his focus to include immigrants from Central American and other countries. Bartletti’s tough, poetic images both comment upon and transcend the myriad social and political ramifications of immigration. His fundamental concern is to depict with unflinching honesty the basic humanity of individuals who feel compelled to leave their homelands in search of a better life in the United States.
Enrique’s journey