Ben Apfelbaum

LEADING SYDNEY ART GALLERIES REOPEN IN JUNE

The Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Michael Brand has announced that the Gallery will reopen on Monday the 1st of June together with the Brett Whiteley Studio in Surry Hills.

Visitors will be able to see the 22nd Sydney Biennale of Sydney – NIRIN as well as three exhibitions; Shadow Catchers’,’Under The Stars’ and ‘Some Mysterious Places’, the latter having been curated by the Director.

Shortly thereafter it is anticipated that there will be an announcement of the new dates for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2020 to be held later in the year.

The online initiatives collected under the umbrella title ‘Together In Art’ will. continue.

The Director of the MCA Elizabeth Ann Macgregor announced that the MCA will reopen on Tuesday the 16th June 2020.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.