As a freelance photographer/travel writer, Ferne Saltzman has collected images from her travels on all 7 continents. Her work has appeared in over 48 publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Westways Magazine, Petersen’s Photographic, and Popular Photography. For 11 years, Saltzman was the Official Photographer for the Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the largest event of its kind in the world. Those photos have been honored in a Kodak diorama on Times Square. She has taught photography at UCLA, in various photographic institutions, and to a growing number of private students who love her enthusiasm, creativity, and exciting slide shows. Saltzman's art graces the halls of several galleries in California, and she has had numerous one-woman shows featuring her work. Her photographs can also be seen all over southern California at successful art fairs in Beverly Hills, Calabasas, Hermosa Beach, Sierra Madre, Studio City/Sherman Oaks, Malibu, Montrose, Thousand Oaks, Woodland Hills, and others.
Saltzman’s love of impressionist art led her to develop a painterly style that combines the best of photography and oil painting. Her award-winning Polaroid hand-painted and manipulated photographs have been purchased by fine art collectors all over the country.
Ferne began her photographic career in 1981 without intending to. While doing poetry readings illustrated by a professional photographer, it became necessary for her to do both parts of the show. With only 21 days to learn to use a camera, she did the show using her own images. Ferne credits that crisis with giving her a new way to look at the beauty of the world -- through the eye of a camera. As Joseph Campbell put it, she had found her bliss.