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

manly jazz festival : 41 years strong

Held over the long weekend, its traditional time of the year, the Manly Jazz Festival hosted more than 100 free performances across four outdoor stages and indoor venues, as well as in shopfront laneways.

At age 41 years it is

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sarah grunstein in recital @ the utzon room

I have just returned from hearing Sarah Grunstein play Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann at the Utzon room in the Sydney Opera House.

There is no nicer venue than this room, with its panoramic vista of Sydney harbour and intimate atmosphere.

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shakespeare’s pop up globe coming to sydney

After performing to an astonishing before 450,000 people in just two years, the world’s first full scale temporary working replica of one of the greatest theatres in history, the second Globe will  pop up in Sydney’s Entertainment Quarter from the

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40 years of love : art installation @ taylor square

On Sunday 24th June 2018, a date which marked the historic 40th anniversary of the first ever Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, a vibrant inflatable art installation in the heart of Sydney’s LGBTQI district, Taylor Square.

Designed by Maurice

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