Oceanside Museum of Art celebrates the storied career of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, Don Bartletti with an exhibition featuring photography captured throughout his over 40-year career. Don Bartletti: Elusive Moments-Enduring Stories will open later this month on January 22 and run through May 1.
Don Bartletti spent his career traveling the globe, visiting more than 23 countries to tell the story of individuals who are often silenced or go unnoticed. His work aims to promote a greater understanding of causes and consequences of illegal immigration into the United States from Mexico and Central America.
The images featured in this exhibition give viewers a look behind the lens through Bartletti’s perspective with images capturing people and moments in time from around the world, representing every range of emotion. This exhibition is a reflection and celebration of Bartletti’s storied career and invites the viewer to go on a “scavenger hunt” and become the storyteller of his images. Every wrinkle, tear, hug, and smile have a story behind it, and many of these stories are hiding in plain sight. No matter the language you speak, a photograph is a universal language that can be translated into any accent, emphasis, or opinion. These images are a purposeful search for emotions, personalities, circumstances and moments that will beg the viewer to critically question or simply appreciate what they see in the picture.
Bartletti’s work has most notably been featured throughout California including in the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. Now retired, he remains dedicated to the causes and effects of economic migration across the southern border of the U.S. and within nearly every state in Mexico.
Would you be interested in speaking with Don Bartletti to learn more about the images in the exhibition? High-res images can be found here.
About Oceanside Museum of Art
Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA) is a private, non-profit 501 (c)(3) corporation that began providing exhibitions and public programs in 1995 as part of their mission to celebrate art through engagement, education and innovation. OMA is known for exploring new, relevant, and historical art of Southern California, with exhibitions that showcase the finest art of the Southern California region including paintings, sculptures, studio furniture, art quilts, and architectural glass. Each of the galleries are redesigned for each exhibition, surprising visitors with a fresh and exciting visual transformation. In addition to more than 15 highly praised contemporary art exhibitions per year, OMA’s programming includes concerts, films, culinary events, fundraising parties, evening events, docent tours and chartered travel to other local, national and international cultural art venues and destinations. The OMA experience stimulates imagination, presents new ideas, and challenges the familiar in a welcoming environment for those new to art, longtime museum-goers, artists, art students, or simply the curious. For more information on Oceanside Museum of Art, visit www.oma-online.org
