Collection - The Beatles In India

Paul Saltzman is a two-time Emmy Award winning Toronto-based film and television producer-director known for over 300 productions. Paul 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 early 1968 he learned meditation at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in India, an experience that changed his life. Whilst he was there, he photographed the Beatles, Mia Farrow, Donovan and Mike Love.

Since then he has produced television series like My Secret Identity, Matrix and Max Glick. 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 and in early 2006 he self published his second book The Beatles in India on which his exhibition at JLA is based.

The Collection

The Beatles in India is the latest exhibition at John Lennon Airport. Paul Saltzman was witness to the most creative period in The Beatles` history. His candid pictures of their visit to the Maharishi`s ashram in Rishikesh, India in 1968 show them sunburned, unshaven, relaxed and at ease in their surroundings. This is a rare opportunity to see the real men behind one of the greatest bands in the world. Paul had come to the ashram to learn meditation unaware that The Beatles would be there. Thirty years later he rediscovered the timeless images and was moved by what he saw. Here were the honest and open faces of four young men at their creative zenith, who shared their life at the ashram - for a brief moment in time - with a 24-year-old who had travelled half way around the world to `find himself`.