Ben Apfelbaum

THE DRY: A NEW AUSTRALIAN CRIME THRILLER: SYDNEY PREMIERE

Author Jane Harper
Joe Klocek, BeBe Bettencourt and Sam Corlett
Eric Bana & wife Rebecca Gleeson (3)
Jodi Matterson & Bruna Papandrea (Producers) (3)
Matt Nable and Jeremy Lindsay Taylor
Steve Kilbey
William Zappa

In ‘The Dry’ Federal Police agent Aaron Falk returns to the struggling farming community of Kiewarra for the funeral of his childhood best friend, Luke Hadler. Severe drought has put the town under extreme pressure and the community is shocked but not surprised when the Hadler family is found dead in their farmhouse.

While Falk is loath to confront the townspeople who rejected him twenty years earlier, the circumstances around the deaths of the Hadlers, what appears to be a murder-suicide, compels him to dig deeper into the events leading up to the tragedy.

‘The Dry’ is the screen adaptation of Australian author Jane Harper’s award winning novel of the same name published 2016.

‘The Dry’ has beeb directed by Robert Connolly from a script by Harry Cripps and Robert Connolly. The film stars include Eric Bana, Genevieve O’Reily, John Polson, Julia Blake, Bruce Spence and William Zappa.

Ben’s pics were taken at the Sydney Premiere of ‘The Dry’ at the Westpac Openair Cinema, Mrs Macquarie Point. Due to unseasonal Sydney weather ‘The Dry’ premiere was very much a wet affair.

‘The Dry’ is screening in cinemas now, currently playing the Dendy Newtown and the Randwick Ritz cinemas.

Featured image: Robert Connolly and Miranda Tapsell. 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.