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

manifesto @ art gallery of new south wales

German artist Julian Rosefeldt (born 1965) is internationally renowned for his visually opulent and meticulously choreographed moving image artworks.

In the immersive film installation MANIFESTO (2014-2015) Rosefeldt has collaborated with Australian actor Cate Blanchett to present a series of striking

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st mary’s cathedral winter festival

 

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St Mary’s Cathedral was transformed into a Winter Wonderland complete with an ice skating rink, ‘chalets’ selling warm food and an ‘ice’ fairy cave.

Ice skaters attended the rink and the other facilities in droves, under mainly sunny skies.…

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music on the streets @ bondi

 

Music  from Samba to funky jazz, through to rap, ukuleles, piano music and folk greeted Bondi Beach strollers along Campbell Parade.  The Music on The Streets event took place on Sunday 31 July.

This was the third and final …

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celebrity theatresports @ enmore theatre

Judging Celebrity Theatresports held at the Enmore Theatre last Saturday night is like trying to critique a box of Smarties. We were assaulted by a barrage of colour and humour to suit all tastes.

Improvised theatre is just that, made …

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twelfth night @ belvoir street

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Production photography by Brett Boardman.

Twins are washed up after a shipwreck onto the shores of Illyria, both unaware of the others survival. Like A Midsummers Nights Dream,  there seems to be a dream like spell over Illyria, where everyone

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eko nugroho : lot lost @ art gallery of new south wales

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IMGL3381Artist EKO NUGROHO belongs to a generation  of contemporary Indonesian artists who emerged during ‘Reformasi’, a period of democratic reforms that followed several months of economic turmoil and the collapse of the Suharto dictatorship in 1988. Based in Yogyakarta, the

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