Ben Apfelbaum

RED CARPET : I, TONYA

Photography by Ben Apfelbaum.

Australian star Margot Robbie flew in to Sydney on Tuesday 23 January 2018 to specifically attend the premiere of I TONYA at the Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park.

Like many an Australian superstar Robbie got her start in Neighbours. Any sign of jet lag was dispelled by Robbie mingling happily with her many enthusiastic fans. Shortly after the premiere Robbie heard that she had been nominated for the best Female Actress Oscar and it is reported that she partied well into the early hours of the following day.

Margot Robbie urged Australian born director Craig Gillespie to permit her to perform her own ice skating. In the film all the ice skating stunts, except for the most extremely difficult, are in fact performed by Robbie.

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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.