Ben Apfelbaum

RED CARPET : BABYLON

Diego Calva & Margot Robbie
The inspired unemployed
Api Rohan & Celeste Barber
Cameron Robbie
Dave Hughes
Diego Calva
Flappers in the foyer
James Stewart, Sarah Roberts
Margot Robbie
Samara Weaving, Diego Calva, Margot Robbie, Phoebe Tonkin
Sammy Robinson

There’s nothing like a big Hollywood premiere to bring the city centre to a standstill. This was the case with  the Sydney premiere of BABYLON with Market Street blocked off. 

Two of the stars of the movie, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, were there accompanied by two of Australia’s celebrated actors, Phoebe Tonkin and Samara Weaving. 

Margot, in particular, looked particularly relaxed and embraced with delight personal friends who were placed near the head of the Red Carpet. In addition, she and the aforementioned actors, as they strode across Market Street, signed autographs and had selfies taken.

In addition, invited guests, inside the foyer, were entertained by a band playing twenties and thirties music accompanied by flapper dancers.

After the pizazz, city traffic returned to normal.

Featured image : Samara Weaving, Phoebe Tonkin. Text and photos by Ben Apfelbaum

 

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.