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

sneak previewing the mardi gras parade

If  you wished to have a Mardi Gras Parade experience without constantly standing for four hours or more, there is another way to ‘see’ it.

If you go to Hyde Park South approximately three hours before the starting time of …

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the secret garden revealed

Once again  John Frost has teamed with Opera  Australia to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Australian production of ‘The Secret Garden’ which will play at the Sydney Lyric Theatre from the 2nd August.

Lyndon Terracini, Artistic Director of Opera …

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mardi gras fair day 2020

The first few months of the early part of the year are in Sydney, packed with huge events for all the public to enjoy. These events include the Sydney Festival, the Chinese Lunar New Year and currently the Gay Mardi …

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‘radiant flux’ and ‘all auras touch’ @ carriageworks

These exhibitions  at Carriageworks were launched during the Sydney Festival but have been extended beyond the January Festival period.

The first is Rebecca Baumann’s ‘Radiant Flux’. She has placed  different coloured cellophane like materials, a dichroic film, over every …

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war horse media call @ the lyric theatre

The National Theatre Of Great Britain is currently staging its award winning production of WAR HORSE at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre, direct from a sell out season in London. In a remarkable achievement it is a six time winner at Broadway’s …

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film critics circle of australia’s 2019 awards

If the AACTA’s are regarded as the equivalent to the American Academy Awards then the Film Critics Circle Of Australia (FCCA) can . be regarded as our Golden Globes which are also judged by film critics, without the glitz and …

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law term opening @ the great synagogue

It has been a tradition going back many centuries that the judiciary barristers and solicitors attend a religious service where they pray for wisdom in the dispensing of justice. Earlier courts were more overtly religious with the creation of Ecclesiastical …

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leigh whannell exposes ‘the invisible man’

Leigh Whannell got his start on the 1990’s television show ‘Recovery’. He was its movie reviewer and media personality/interviewer.

His first interview was with Jackie Chan and he has declared that ‘The Recovery’ gig was the best job he ever …

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