Ben Apfelbaum

ME AND MY LEFT BRAIN PREMIERE @ RANDWICK RITZ

ME AND MY LEFT BRAIN  is a new film from Greek-Australian writer/director/actor Alex Lykos and follows on from his critically acclaimed film Alex and Eve. Lykos summarises his film as a romantic comedy about love, career choices and the paralysing effect of over thinking. Sezary Skubiszewsk, an AACA award winning composer, has created an all jazz score for the film, the first of its kind to be made in Australia.

The Red Carpet itself was a bit of a nerve wracking experience in that the impatient photographers had to wait until the film’s actors finished drinking in a cafe across the road from the red carpeted Randwick Ritz cinema.

However once they crossed the road and onto the Red Carpet they were absolutely ebullient when facing the lenses and flashes.

ME  AND MY LEFT BRAIN is screening at selected cinemas now.

Pics by Ben Apfelbaum. Featured image Natalie Ladyko.

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.