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

zampatti powerhouse : a powerhouse of an exhibition

 

Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum has unveiled ZAMPATTI POWERHOUSE, the major survey exhibition which celebrates the life and legacy of the iconic Australian Carla Zampatti which opened on 24 November 2022

The first internationally exclusive retrospective of Carla Zampatti

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victorian artist wins australia’s richest portrait prize

Victorian artist Graeme Drendel has won Australia’s richest portrait prize, the $150,000 2022 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (DMNPP), for his painting of fellow artist Lewis Miller.

The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize judges original artworks from Australian artists, capturing

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ash barty : my dream time

I have not seen an author so popular that they have both filled a literary lunch and dinner on the same day. 

The reason for this was that Australia’s sweetheart Ash Barty has written a memoir entitled MY DREAM TIME

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unpopular @ the powerhouse museum

Powerhouse recently unveiled Unpopular, a major exhibition featuring the never-before-seen archive of music entrepreneur Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic. The exhibition explores the global rise of the alternative music scene that included cornerstone bands such as Nirvana, Beastie Boys, Sonic

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the new theatre proudly ninety years strong

On the 18th October 2022 the New Theatre in Newtown had a double celebration. In the first place there was the launch of a book outlining the history of the New Theatre. The second event was the commemoration of the

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