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

vivid 2022 : circular quay

VIVID was a disappointing spectacle at Circular Quay with poor planning and lacklustre displays.  

The complete absence of installations between Sydney Opera House and Customs House meant that there was  a huge crush of people trying to get to First

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bonnie and clyde the musical @ the hayes

It seems that no musical can open without the words the musical added on to the title. At the Hayes Theatre we had the adventurous American Psycho The Musical, we currently have the superb Mary Poppins The Musical and what …

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red carpet : baz luhrmann’s elvis

In one of the largest premieres since pre-pandemic days, Market Street  was lined with hundreds of fans hoping to grab a glimpse of the stars walking the Red Carpet at the State Theatre for the Sydney premiere of ELVIS.

And …

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pro hart gallery @ broken hill

Broken Hill gives the impression that it is a hard hat tough mining town as well as being in a brief landscape perfect for Mad Max films (in fact the latest Mad Max film is being shot in Hay). 

BHP

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dymocks literary lunch : miriam margolyes

Miriam Margolyes delighted a capacity crowd held at the Sofitel Wentworth as part of the Dymocks Literary luncheon series. 

Here to promote her memoir THIS MUCH IS TRUE, she was capably interviewed by recent senate candidate and feminist activist Jane

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red carpet : mary poppins

It seemed that the entire front bench of the NSW Government attended the premiere of Mary Poppins. 

In particular, Deputy Premier Matt Kean attended with his young family and Premier Dominic Perrottet walked the Red Carpet with three of his

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