Ben Apfelbaum

GREENS PROPOSE MULTI MILLION DOLLAR ARTS RESCUE PACKAGE

The Greens have announced a three part rescue package dubbed ‘Create Australia’ which they will lobby other political parties to adopt and implement.

The package developed in association with  leading arts organisations includes a $800 million project to put an artist in residence at each school and library , a $1billion Australian content fund to kickstart the country ‘s screen industry and a $1billion fund for new events and productions in. the festival, music and live performance sector.

Green Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said,’the arts and entertainment sector has been so savaged. There are hundreds of thousands of people out of work, billions lost to the economy….Without  rescue package Australia risked the permanent loss of cuktural capital, of institutions and organisations that won’t be able to cope, an d artists and arts workers who will move on tp other things because they have to.”

 

Published by 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.