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

the gospel according to paul @ the playhouse

From Wollongong to Wyong, from Port Macquarie to Penrith and Parramatta, Jonathon Biggins has been touring his wildly acclaimed play throughout New South Wales.

Wherever Biggins takes this show he performs nearly always to deserved full houses. Paul Keating is

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moran contemporary photography prize 2019

Since its inception the Moran Contemporary Prize has been celebrating the work of local photographers both adult and student as they capture the experience of living in Australia. With an eye to the future the Moran School Photographic Workshop hosted

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sydney film festival program announced

In front of an audience of filmmakers both behind and in front of the camera, as well as veteran and aspiring movie folk, Sydney Film Director Nashan Moodley launched the 66th Sydney Film Festival at the Lower Town Hall, a

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evelyne weltlinger : songs of my heart

There are not many women who have come out  as soloist singers late in their life. Apart from Evelyne, the only woman that springs to my mind was Sharon Jones  who came to the fore at age forty nine after …

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red carpet : top end wedding

There should have been an ochre carpet rather than a Red Carpet for the Sydney premiere of TOP END WEDDING.

The film stars Miranda Tapsell who co-wrote the script by drawing on her experiences growing up in Darwin and Kakadu

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venus in fur @ 107 projects redfern

This play by David Ives opened off Broadway in  2010 and this production is very ‘off Broadway’, that is the show is being performed at the Performance Space, 107 Redfern Street, Redfern.

Given the vigour and passion that has been

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red carpet : saturday night fever

If you were in Sydney around the time when the premiere of Saturday Night Fever was taking place, you would find there was a dearth of white suits, black shirts, glitter and let’s not forget sequin.

The invitation to the

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media call : saturday night fever

The celebrated musical SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER will have its opening night at the Sydney Lyric Theatre on Tuesday 2nd April, 2019, twenty years after its opening on Broadway.

Despite productions in Argentina, Holland, Spain, Germany and South Africa, to name

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media call : sydney dance company season 1, 2019

Sydney Dance Company is celebrating its 50th anniversary. In those fifty years Sydney Dance Company have utilised over 250 dancers, dozens of composers and designers, all guided by its Artistic Directors- Suzanne Musitz, Jaap Flier, Graeme Murphy and Tanya Liedtke.

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