The Age photos of the week, February 7, 2026
The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributors at The Age.
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The burnt-out Jeffrey property in Whiteheads Creek. Annabelle Cleeland and her daughter Quinn (centre), with Lou Webb (left) and her children Tom, Fred and George, and Felicity Jeffrey and her children Jemima, Sebastien and Claudio. The families’ homes were hit by the Longwood fire in early January. Credit:Chris Hopkins
2/26
Colin Arnold, of Graze Away, has been grazing his goats on the Mullum Mullum Creek in Ringwood reducing weeds. The council is now ending the popular initiative due to costs. Credit:Arsineh Houspian
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Artist Peter Schipperheyn with his sculpture of opera singer Amy Sherwin in his Donvale studio. Greens party founder Bob Brown initiated fundraising to have two of them made and installed in Hobart’s Hadley’s Orient Hotel. Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
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Music festival fan Erin Girvan.Credit:Arsineh Houspian
5/26
Frankston High School students Archer Gibson and Ava Bryant learning to kayak during an outdoor education lesson in their school swimming pool.Credit:Alex Coppel
6/26
Pastry chefs prepare croissants at Lune bakery in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.Credit:Simon Schluter
7/26
Carlos Alcaraz wins the first set against Alexander Zverev during their semi-final at the Australian Open.Credit:Christopher Hopkins
8/26
Crystal Wong and her daughter Arya, 10. Crystal toured 30 schools to find the right one for her daughter. Credit:Alex Coppel
9/26
DJ Cooper Smith checking out the set-up for his gig at the Frankston Waterfront Festival. Cooper was born with cerebral palsy. Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
10/26
As a paramedic, Luke Baird has to live close to his ambulance station in Lorne, but a lack of rental properties meant he almost had to move away.Credit:Justin McManus
11/26
Friends of Skeleton Creek president Angela Whiffin at wetlands in Point Cook.Credit:Simon Schluter
12/26
Frankston High School students with outdoor and environment studies teacher Luke Rowe.Credit:Joe Armao
13/26
Australian Open mixed doubles champions Olivia Gadecki and John Peers.Credit:Eddie Jim
14/26
Kim Economides outside the Spanish consulate in Melbourne with a photo of his war veteran father, Michael Economides. Kim is the first Australian to have been granted Spanish citizenship, under a new Spanish government Democratic Memory Law.Credit:Alex Coppel
15/26
CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour spoke at the Australian Open Inspiration Series event in Melbourne.Credit:PENNY STEPHENS
16/26
Historian Sean Reynolds will give a talk at the Public Record Office Victoria about female criminals in Victorian history, some of whom were incarcerated in Old Melbourne Gaol.Credit:Justin McManus
17/26
Elena Rybakina with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after defeating Aryna Sabalenka in the Australian Open women’s singles final. Credit:Eddie Jim
18/26
Breda Bondoux was in a 17-year marriage with a man and had two children, but always felt like something wasn’t right. Last year, she ended the marriage and came out as gay.Credit:Justin McManus
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Year 11 VCE general maths student Eva White from Bacchus Marsh Grammar is the school’s top-performing general maths student this year.Credit:Jason South
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Models Abuk Yai and Clare Walker in Topshop outfits before the Myer runway show on February 19 at the Melbourne Fashion Festival.Credit:Eddie Jim