Vera Saltzman's Bio

Vera Saltzman is a photographer based in Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan. She explores concepts of memory, identity, and place using numerous genres including landscape, architecture, portraiture and self-portraiture.

A graduate of the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa, and Mount Allison University, Vera received the top prize in the Saskatchewan Prairie Light Photography Festival which resulted in her first solo exhibition at the Godfrey Dean Gallery, Yorkton. She received two Applied Arts Awards for creative excellence and her series “The Shacks” won a place in the international journal The Creative Quarterly. She was a finalist for the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (International) and a top 200 finalist for Photolucidia’s Critical Mass (International).

Vera’s work has been displayed nationally, including in Photoville FENCE (Calgary), Art Toronto, and the Ottawa Art Gallery, and internationally, in Oregon, San Francisco, Spain, and South Korea. It has appeared in numerous publications and online sites including Black and White Magazine (USA), Black+White Photography (UK), Seities (Canada) and Shots Magazine (USA).

Her work resides in the permanent collections of the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, and the City of Ottawa. She is represented by Slate Fine Art Gallery in Regina.