Author: 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 Treborlang. 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.
To celebrate the opening of a permanent Photography Gallery, the State Library of New South Wales selected 400 shots from its archive of over 2,000,000 images to display in the new gallery. An image of mine was plucked out of the multi million photo archive to be part of the inaugural exhibition.
ZOE LEONARD : AL RIO/ TO THE RIVER @ MCA
WICKED : FIRST STAGED REHEARSAL @ ABC STUDIOS
TABLE MANNERS : PYMBLE PLAYERS PERFORM A CLASSIC AYCKBOURN COMEDY
SIGRID THORNTON RECEIVES ANOTHER WELL DESERVED HONOUR
30 YEARS OF FUTURE FASHION EXHIBITION @ POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
KALEIDOSCOPE INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION @ POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
PREVIEW SCREENING : WARWICK THORNTON’S THE NEW BOY
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS ART FAIR : PART OF NAIDOC WEEK 2023
MARILYN MONROE : THE WOMAN BEHIND THE ICON : OPENING NIGHT
VIVID SYDNEY @ DARLING HARBOUR
VIVID SYDNEY @ CIRCULAR QUAY
RED CARPET BEAUTY AND THE BEAST @ THE CAPITOL
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST @ THE CAPITOL THEATRE
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2023 CLOSING NIGHT RED CARPET
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