The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.
1/16
The group Wednesday Ocean Waders, or Wowsers, have their annual winter solstice celebration to mark the shortest day of the year, involving a lantern parade with handmade lanterns, a bagpipe playing and a dip in the ocean at Torquay beach.Credit:Joe Armao
2/16
Tessa Carroll and Ben Heenan, pictured with baby Anderson, make sustainable clothing.Credit:Simon Schluter
3/16
Melbourne defender Steven May ahead of the club’s Pink Lady game against North Melbourne.Credit:Simon Schluter
4/16
A Collingwood street scene.Credit:Simon Schluter
5/16
Nikki Shiels will play Blanche in Melbourne Theatre Company’s ‘A Street Car Named Desire’ opening in July.Credit:Chris Hopkins
6/16
Without rain, Western district farmer Darren has been collecting dead lambs from the paddocks, as his maiden ewes are in survival mode, and are just walking away from the newborns. The foxes are teaming in the area, and are snacking on the dead animals overnight.Credit:Nicole Cleary
7/16
Greg Lynn leaves court a convicted murderer.Credit:Jason South
8/16
Taungurung Land and Waters Council chief executive Matthew Burns says traditional owners have a responsibility to protect the Rubicon River.Credit:Joe Armao
9/16
Arrival of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange into Canberra, on Wednesday 26 June 2024.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
10/16
Curator Grace McQuilten, second from left, with artists Alex Danay, Moon Girle and Angela Clarke in the exhibit Hiromi Hotel: Inhabitant 2022, by Hiromi Tango with Alex Danay and Vivian Qiu.Credit:Justin McManus
11/16
Greg Scott, Jon Costello and Peter Walsh , who are the partners in the Albion Hotel, an old Collingwood institution that they have brought back to life.Credit:Simon Schluter
12/16
Kat Stewart and husband David Whiteley are starring together in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Credit:Simon Schluter
13/16
AFL’s Head of Mental Health and Wellbeing, Kate Hall, at AFL House in Docklands.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
14/16
David Clark and Gab Moore from Sailors Grave Brewing. Gab is holding the Bloody Caesar Michelada and David the Dark Emu Dark Lager at the Great Australian SpecTAPular Festival at Melbourne Showgrounds in Flemington. Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
15/16
Tea time: Beauty and the Beast head of wardrobe Darryl Myott and his deputy Sue Bell with actor Jayde Westaby in a dressing room at Her Majesty’s Theatre.Credit:Justin McManus
16/16
Bard’s Apothecary owner Matthew Moloney AND Architect and Co-founder of Six Degrees Architects James Legge at the Crossley St laneway venue. The bar is a replica of the famous Meyer’s Place that was across the road. Bard’s Apothecary will be part of Open House with James Legge giving a talk about laneway culture in Melbourne. Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
