Shmuel Thaler
A staff photographer at the Santa Cruz Sentinel since 1987, Shmuel Thaler was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year by the County’s Arts Commission His photographs have been published in every leading newspaper in the United States and he has twice been honored with awards in the prestigious National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism.
Shmuel has co-authored 5 children’s books including his collaboration with George Levenson on ‘Bread Comes to Life’ and the classic ‘Pumpkin Circle’, which has more than 100,000 copies in print and is held by every major library system in the country.
Shmuel has been the volunteer staff photographer for eight Mount Madonna School Values in World Thought learning journeys to India and South Africa including documenting conversations with Nobel Laureates His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
A graduate of the film school at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Shmuel lives in Santa Cruz with his favorite subjects – his wife Kathy and daughters Hannah and Kayla.
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