
red carpet girl from the north country
Featured image : Leanna Walsman and guest. All pics by 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.

Featured image : Leanna Walsman and guest. All pics by Ben Apfelbaum…









THE LITTLE PRINCE by Antoine de Saint-Exupery was his most successful book and although published in the United States in April 1943 it was only published after his death in France in 1944.
Countries around the world from Brazil to …
Framed by in my opinion the most beautiful beach in Australia, if not the world, photographs hung on the featured promenade railings have been battered by La Nina storms such that this exhibition has been extended.
In addition atop the …




The Powerhouse Museum is the first institution outside Korea to host this exhibition and it coincides with and celebrates the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Australia. When it was staged in the National …

There was a legendary photographer called Bill Cunningham who snapped society photos for the New York Times riding from one venue to the next wearing shorts, a daggy shirt and cap. It was said that a party was not a …

David Williamson has had an enormous influence on Australian theatrical life. In his talk at the recent Dymocks Literary lunch where he was interviewed by entertainment reporter Garry Maddox, he acknowledged that he was the first playwright to give theatre …

The keyboard has evolved over the last six hundred years. Instrument designers and makers have explored ways to improve the manufacture and tone of higher quality, more reliable and accessible instruments.
Over the past seventy years the humble piano and …

The Powerhouse Museum is playing tribute to our most overlooked and unappreciated tree, the Eucalyptus gumtree. Eucalyptusdom emphasises our cultural history and ever changing relationship with the gumtree, from the relationship between eucalypts and Indigenous Australians, the significance of the …

Featured image Kirby Burgess & Ben Mingay. All pics by Ben Apfelbaum…

The Powerhouse Museum has come out of lockdown seeking to lure the public back with a discreet number of extremely stimulating and thought provoking exhibitions. One of these is identitled GRAPHIC IDENTITIES.
It presents eight designers who were pivotal in …
Sydney Arts Guide acknowledges the traditional land and its owners and the contribution of the First Nations People of Australia, past, present and evolving.