Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this.

I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years.

During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar.

My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke.

I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY-DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborland. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher.

Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY.

My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there.

I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, united states, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication.

709 posts by Ben Apfelbaum

spring is festival time in sydney

Tomorrow (Saturday 4th November) is the Surry Hills Festival, on the 11th November is the Piramma Festival at Pyrmont and on the 18th November is the Macleay Street Kings Cross Festival.

These are inner city festivals. There is probably a …

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sally hepworth : darling girls

Sally Hepworth is a New York Times best selling author of nine novels. Drawing on the good, the bad and the outright odd of human behaviour., Sally writes incisively about family, relationships and identity. Her domestic thriller novels are sprinkled …

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dymocks literary lunch : bryan brown

 

 

Bryan Brown was at a Dymocks Literary lunch to promote the second of his books, the novel, THE DROWNING, which followed his collection of short stories entitled Sweet Jimmy. 

Philip Clark, as is often the case, was the …

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sydney opera house turns fifty

When someone turns fifty they usually receive jubilee gifts. However on the opening weekend of  the 21st  and 22nd October it was the Sydney Opera House that gave us gifts.

As we waited in the foyer young thespians in tshirts …

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‘caught’ stan tv world premiere

 

A blue carpet was laid out on the western forecourt of the Sydney Opera House.

The celebrities who walked the carpet included many of the Australian stars in CAUGHT and a touch of Hollywood royalty in the form of …

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badu gili wonder woman

Badu Gili- meaning ‘water light’ in the language of the traditional owners of Bennelong Point, the Gadigal people – is a free daily experience that explores First Nations stories in a spectacular six-minute projection on the Opera House’s eastern Bennelong …

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whispers : the work of quandamooka artist megan cope

 

On Tubowgule, now called Bennelong Point, Quandamooka artist Megan Cope introduces Whispers, a melding of First Nations history and environmental consciousness. With more than 85,000 oyster shells positioned across the Sydney Opera House precinct, the artist evokes the ancestral

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the importance of being earnest @ roslyn packer theatre

The Sydney Theatre Company has produced a sparkling  production of Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST.

The tale of two rich and spoilt bachelors and their pursuit of their loves Gwendolen and Cecily through needless deception, all overseen …

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