Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist Captures Human Migration

KPBS | By KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published January 9, 2007 at 10:39 AM PST

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

We talk with Los Angeles Times photojournalist Don Bartletti about his career photographing migrant populations, including his photos documenting Honduran children migrating to the United States.

Tom Fudge: Human migration is as unstoppable as the wind. That’s what photographer Don Bartletti says. And he should know. He’s spent a good part of his career documenting the movements of people. Don is a photographer for the LA Times . And he won a Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of Central American boys, who ride the rails through Mexico on their way to the U.S.

The Roads Most Traveled: Photographs of Migration is currently on display at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park through January 14 ^th .

Also, Don will give a lecture at the Museum this Wednesday night at 7 p.m. as part of KPBS and the San Diego Public Library’s One Book, One San Diego campaign. The featured book is

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Enrique’s Journey , written by Sonia Nazario with photographs by Don Bartletti.

Guest

Don Bartletti, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist for the Los Angeles Times.