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 PROM AT TEATRO LEICHHARDT

The Broadway musical THE PROM is currently playing the Teatro theatre at the Forum in Leichhardt.

This musical follows a group of broadway performers who travel to a small American town to support a high school seeking to attmmunity and …

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THE 25TH BIENNALE OF SYDNEY TILL 14 JUNE 2026

Featured image : Artist Chang Em Man. Pic Ben Apfelbaum

One of the advantages of attending the media preview to the Biennale is that you are transported to far flung galleries around Sydney, and this year it included the  Lewis

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METRO STATION ARTWORK : WORTH TRAVELLING TO SEE

Many overseas countries have turned their underground train stations in to works of art. Paris is famous for the artwork in its Metro and Moscow’s chanderliered ceiling is a mecca for tourists round the world with the benefit that the …

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