Ben Apfelbaum

SOME COOL PICS FROM THE Sydney Theatre Awards

The Sydney Theatre Awards night took place on 31 January, 2022, at the Seymour Centre.Here are some cool pics taken on the night by Sydney Arts Guide photographer Ben Apfebaum

Lifetime Achievement Award Winners:

Gale Edwards with her Lifetime Achievement Award
Tony Sheldon with his Lifetime Achievement Award

Live performances:

The Adventures 0f Priscilla cast performing
Peter Cousens
A Chorus Line cast performing at the Awards night

Actors Benevolent Fund Bursary Award winner:

Bruce Spence presents Amy Maeve Durkin with the Actors Benevolent Fund Bursary

A couple of Sydney Theatre critics:

Emcee, theatre critic and Coordinator of the Sydney Theatre Awards Night Ian Phipps
Sydney Theatre critic Suzi Wrong

Seaborn, Broughton and Walford Foundation and the Actors Benevolent Fund:

Peter Lowry, the President of the Seaborn Broughton and Walford Foundation and Camilla Rowntree of the Actors Benevolent Fund

Veteran thespian Maggie Blinco unmasks

Maggie Blinco who stars in the new Australian film ‘A Stitch In Time’ which opens in cinemas on the 17th February.

Featured image : Two legends of The Australian theatre Geraldine Turner and Nancye Hayes

All pics 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 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.