Ben Apfelbaum

SYDNEY FRINGE FESTIVAL 2022 LAUNCH

Paul Capsis
Angela Bishop

The premiere of Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett was the central event of the launch of this year’s Sydney Fringe Festival. The principal speakers announcing the events to come were Kerrie Glasscock, CEO and Festival Director, Michael Rodriguez, 24 Hour Economy Commissioner  and City of Sydney Councillor Emelda Davis, representing the Sydney Lord Mayor.

Some fifty shows will be held over a range of venues employing approximately 2,500 cast, crew, security personnel and administrators. Amongst the invited guests were celebrities, drag queens and other bohemian Sydney characters who were fed and watered by a circle of food trucks which will also be a feature of the Runaway Gardens throughout the Festival.

https://www.sydneyfringe.com

Featured image : Sydney Councillor Emelda Davis, representing the Sydney Lord Mayor, Sydney Fringe Festival Artistic Director and CEO Kerrie Glasscock and Michael Rodriguez, 24 Hour Economy Commissioner.

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.