The Age photos of the week, October 17, 2026

The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributors at The Age.October 17, 2026 — 8:55am1/18Colombian Santiago Vergara ran the Melbourne marathon on stilts, he was training by the Yarra River, Melbourne.Credit:Penny Stephens2/18Tamara Natt and her wife Aurelia St Clair enjoy the health benefits of kissing.Credit:Simon Schluter3/18Local family from Hoppys Town camp, Alice Springs, Issaha Forbes (Western Arrente) with wife Louise and daughter Tahlaiyah, wearing a new dress to attend the NAIDOC cabaret the same evening.Credit:Justin McManus4/18Hawa Hussien and Hawa Warsame say the government’s decision to relocate them and knock down their beloved tower feels as if a rug has been pulled out from underneath them.Credit:Chris Hopkins5/18Susan Davies, a former independent MP who helped Steve Bracks form minority government in 1999.Credit:Wayne Taylor6/18Martin Clark with his partner Catherine Pitre and their children Olivia, 7, and Elliot, 4, at their rental home in Glen Iris.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui7/18Sister Veronique Karam holding the reliquary of St Carlo Acutis with students at Antonine College, a Maronite Catholic school in Pascoe Vale South, attended a mass and offered prayers with a relic of English-born Italian boy St Carlo Acutis, who died age 15 in 2006 and was canonised in 2025 by Pope Leo XIV.Credit:Simon Schluter8/18Shane Robertson is seeking compensation from Barwon Health after he lost vision in his eye following a cataract surgery in September 2025.Credit:Jason South9/18Eliud Kipchoge, winner and record breaker of the men’s Melbourne Marathon, crosses the finish line at the MCG. in MelbourneCredit:Luis Enrique Ascui10/18Eltham Cemetery general manager Julia Drew and chairperson Fred Harrington OAM. They are unhappy with social media users disrupting mourners to make content showcasing the cemetery’s wisteria.Credit:Joe Armao11/18Good Food’s young chef of the year, Kimberly Tang at Ca Com.Credit:Eddie Jim12/18Symposium co-convener and architect Delia Teschendorff.Credit:Justin McManus13/18Rob Lymer, who has end-stage kidney disease, has been cheering up fellow patients, visitors and staff while he undergoes dialysis at Barwon Health renal services dialysis centre by drawing cartoons that nurses hung up on the clinic walls. Pictured with Renal nurse Lucy Stevens.Credit:Jason South14/18Food writer Brendan Pang with his Sichuan peppercorns of choice at the Great Asia Food Store.Credit:Justin McManus15/18New Bulldogs recruit Zak Butters.Credit:Jason South16/18Zara Garcia, Freya Morris, Skye Coonerty from the Westgate Imperials at Recwest Community sports facility, Braybrook. 16-year-old girls basketball team who’ve just been told they can’t play this season as they don’t have a court available.Credit:Joe Armao17/18Elise O’Neill is a victim survivor who runs a new advocacy group Held Against Her.Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui18/18Heidi Everett has been homeless for the past two years. In and out of transitional housing, when she stays in the CBD she doesn’t sleep as she says it is safer to stay awake so she wanders the streets all night.Credit:Chris Hopkins