Gallery icon25 ImagesThe week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributors at The Age.August 15, 2026 — 12:13pm1/25Wade Taylor with his dog George at Altona dog beach. Wade speaks openly about his battle with binge-eating disorder.Credit:JOE ARMAO2/25Gloria Brereton with her pet galah Billy at her home garden in Mooroopna. Gloria and husband Ian’s home was in the worst-affected street in Mooroopna during 2022 floods.Credit:Justin McManus3/25Tributes at Hong Hung Asian Grocery, Hampshire Rd, Sunshine. A trader died days after he was critically injured in an attack by a group of youths at a local shopping strip.Credit:Ruby Alexander4/25Roslyn Oades, documentary theatre maker. Roslyn is staging a show called Nightlife at the Malthouse, which features a curation of recordings taken of people who have called and left anonymous messages on her phone line. She divides listeners into those who ‘live’ in the night - shift workers etc - and those who are ‘visitors’. What she’s ended up with is a fascinating insight into Melburnians.Credit:Jason South5/25Port Phillip Mayor Alex Makin has concerns about climate change adaptation and rising sea levels.Credit:Justin McManus6/25People viewing property before the Auction of 29 Talbot St, Brunswick.Credit:Simon Schluter7/25Chloe Aldenhoven is a resident at 5 Stonehaven Court, Toorak who will shortly be evicted. Dennis and Georgina Bastas have bought Victoria’s most expensive home, paying $124m for 65 Clendon Road Toorak along with other adjoining properties.Credit:Chris Hopkins8/25The 2026 National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Awards. Telstra Art Award winner Ryan Presley with his painting ‘Our lifestyle of tranquillity undisturbed’. Credit:Helen Orr9/25Little Bourke Street restaurant Pearl Diver.Credit:Penny Stephens10/25Zac Jeffries on his chicken farm, Providore Farm in Narrawong.Credit:Nicole Cleary11/25The company that owns Western United is in receivership and the receiver has sent out people to take whatever they can from United’s home ground at Ironbark Stadium as they’ve just found out the club’s a) lost its A-League licence (its only valuable asset) and b) gone into liquidation. Vusumuzi Gumbo loves the club and wonders where his two boys will play and train now.Credit:Jason South12/25Massive Attack performing at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne.Credit:Richard Clifford13/25Salvation Army’s Brendan Nottle says Lord Mayor Nick Reece has broken his election promise to fund the Salvos in homelessness care.Credit:Eddie Jim14/25Fenner House by acclaimed architect Neil Clerehan, who also designed home for the Small House Service, is up for sale. The architect’s daughter Esther Clerehan pictured in the home, after it’s most recent owner passed away and it’s now a deceased estate.Credit:Ruby Alexander15/25David Gung, (78yrs) Peter Louey (88yrs) and Harold Chin Quan (78yrs) All three were members of the ‘Young Chinese league’ footy team who were a social footy team who played from 1930’s through to the 80’s.Credit:Joe Armao16/25Broden Kelly, one-third of comedy outfit Aunty Donna, has created an AFL footy computer game called Pro Jank Footy, which seeks to capture the chaos and humour of the real thing, Broden pictured with arcade game developer David Ashby.Credit:Simon Schluter17/25Former NFL star Todd Gurley played for the Los Angeles Rams who will play the San Francisco 49ers at the MCG in September.Credit:Jason South18/25Scotch College students head home past the Vision Australia head office which their school has acquired for $60 million.Credit:Eddie Jim19/25April Wilson was afraid that she would pass on anxiety and depression to her daughter. Her doctor told her the best way to prevent that from happening was to treat it in herself. A new Monash study found that anxiety in children and teens starts and can be prevented during their mums’ pregnancy. Credit:Ruby Alexander20/25Political Science researcher Afsaneh Seifinaji at the University of Melbourne. She says Deakin and Swinburne Universities are not accepting any applications from research students from Iran - a conservative approach to advice by the Federal Government that warns Universities about breaching sanctions.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS