Don Bartletti

“I wasn’t a stellar student, but I was an athlete. I was a wrestler. I was too short to play basketball and too small to play football. I also played tennis. I was more artistically inclined. After high school I went to a community college, and I took one course in photography and I was blown away. I wasn’t good at sculpture, drawing or painting but photography enabled me to show the world as it really is and also be very subjective, depending on where I pointed the camera and how I developed the picture. That became my career after Vietnam. I was a photojournalist for the LA Times. That career taken me around the world to 35 countries including more wars after Vietnam.”