Paul Saltzman is a two-time Emmy Award winning Toronto-based film and television producer-director known for over 300 productions.
  
After briefly studying Engineering Science, he did congressional civil rights lobbying in Washington, D.C., and voter registration work in Mississippi. He began his film and television career in 1965 at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a researcher, interviewer and on-air host, and then moved to the National Film Board of Canada. In 1967 he interviewed American inventor and visionary Buckminster Fuller, who would later say that Saltzman changed his assessment of the '60s generation.
  
Early in 1968 he learned meditation at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India, an experience that changed his life. While there, he photographed the Beatles, Mia Farrow, Donovan and Mike Love.
  
In 1968-69 he assisted in the birth of a new film format as second-unit director and production manager of the first IMAX film, produced for the Osaka 1970 World's Fair.
  
In the summer of 1969, he attended the original Woodstock Music Festival; and in the early '70s he produced a Leonard Cohen live concert tour. In 1972 he produced and directed his first film, a half-hour documentary on Bo Diddley.
  
In 1973, Paul founded Sunrise Films Limited. He produced and directed documentaries for the next decade, including the acclaimed series Spread Your Wings. His work included producing, directing, writing, editing, cinematography and sound recording. In 1983, he turned to drama, producing and directing the premier of HBO's Family Playhouse and a special for American Playhouse. In the same year, he co-created and produced the family action-adventure television series Danger Bay. The hit CBC-Disney Channel series ran for 6 years and 123 episodes before moving into re-runs.
  
Since then he has produced television series like My Secret Identity, Matrix and Max Glick, as well as miniseries and movies of the week. He co-produced the feature film Map of the Human Heart, an international epic directed by Vincent Ward, starring Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin, John Cusack and Jean Moreau. He also executive produced Martha, Ruth & Edie as well as Sam & Me, which received an Honorable Mention in competition for the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
  
In 2000, Paul released his first book, The Beatles in Rishikesh, through the Viking Studio, Penguin Putnam. In early 2006 he self-published his second book, a deluxe Limited Edition Box-Set, The Beatles in India, complete with Limited Edition archival chromogenic print, an original CD and an original DVD.
  
He is currently developing several feature film scripts as well as having optioned the film, video and related CD-rom rights to the Vatican Library. Paul is a member of the Director's Guild of Canada and the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. He loves travelling, skydiving and scuba diving, and plays ice hockey several times a week. He has one daughter.
  
Paul Saltzman's meditative photographs from the ashram are unique. You never see the Beatles like this. We threw off our Western clothes. We took up our silk pantaloons. We could be ourselves again. And who ourselves were-who ourselves are-we were keen to find out.
- Donovan Leitch

Paul Saltzman's photos of all of us in India, in 1968, are absolutely beautiful. The photo of John, finger to his ear, is the best picture I've ever seen of John Lennon from the Beatles' era-it speaks volumes.
- Cynthia Lennon

Saltzman's images are irresistible-the more one looks into them, the more they relinquish their secrets. Tiny details and unnoticed associations coalesce around the unplanned and the unexpected.
-Tim B. Wride, Curator of Photography, LACMA

The intimacy of these frames is remarkable-some of the best I have seen-providing a significant addition to the detail of the most important rock group the world has known
- Stephen Maycock, Curator of Rock 'n' Roll Memorabilia

I love Paul's pictures of the Beatles. His photographs are so personal. He's captured them as they were.
- Astrid Kirchherr, Author, Photographer