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

indigenous family canvas wins the 2016 wynne prize

Featured image- Ken family sisters in front of their award winning entry.

Five sisters from the Ken family – Tjungkara Ken, Yaritji Young, Freda Brady, Maringka Tunkin and Sandra Ken – who live in the remote Aboriginal community of Amata …

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archibald prize 2016 winner : louise hearman

Melbourne artist Louise Hearman has won the 2016 Archibald Prize with her electic portrait of iconic Australian Barry Humphries.

Painting entertainer, satirist, artist and Dadaist, Barry Humphries, this is the first time Hearman has been a finalist in the country’s …

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portrait of master chef wins packing room prize

 

Featured image- George Calombaris and Bettina Fauvel-Ogden. All images (c) Ben Apfelbaum.

A huge media contingent turned up at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for the unveiling of the Packing Room prize valued at $1,500. It has …

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hunt for the wilderpeople

Based on a book entitled Wild Pork and Watercress by the late New Zealand folk hero/author Barry Crump, HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE  was the first New Zealand movie to gross over a million dollars in its opening weekend there.…

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naidoc in the city – hyde park

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All images by Ben Apfelbaum.

This year’s NAIDOC Week theme Songlines – the living narrative of our nation- seeks to engage the wider community to know more about The Dreamtime- when ancestral spiritual beings shaped our rivers, lakes, plants, land

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bondi beach winter magic ice skating rink

The second enticement to the Bondi Winter Magic Festival is the introduction of an ice skating rink in front of Bondi Pavilion for the duration of the school holidays. Incongruity of having ice skating at the beach was not lost

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