Ben Apfelbaum

STC PHONE THANK YOUS RECEIVE GENEROUS. RESPONSE

Some arts  venues  have called in financial administrators to assist in their funding woes.

There is better news for the Sydney Theatre Company when Chairwoman of its Board Gretel Packer announced that the “challenge ahead of us is daunting but doable…The Company has strong cash reserves…”

‘No Way?No Pay?’ has been cancelled but ‘The Picture Of Dorian Gray’ is set to play later in the year.

To thank donors who continue to support the Company some of acclaimed actors have phoned patrons who opted to donate back to the Company the value of their tickets.

This has appears to be a great success as patrons who admire these actors from afar  are ecstatic when they receive a personal call from one of their loved thespians

One ticket holder was so delighted when Heather Mitchell, STC actress and Board Member, rang her they instantly made a $5,000 donation.

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.