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Viva Gibb’s photos albums.

She was a loving witness to our changing city. How did we forget her?

An exhibition of Viva Gibb’s remarkable photographs evokes an inner-city Melbourne that is long gone.

  • Kerrie O'Brien

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Viva Gibb, Self-portrait, 64 Capel Street, West Melbourne, c. 1975-78, silver gelatin print, 14 x 9 cm.
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‘On the street where I live’ photography of Viva Jillian Gibb

Viva Gibb documented the people of the inner-city suburbs of North and West Melbourne from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s

  • Danie Sprague
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Retro retail back in focus

And a carbon admission.

Workers harvest salt at ponds in Manaure, Colombia.
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World in pictures this week, February 11, 2026

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by The Age picture editors

  • April Lombardo
Amy Taylor has become one of the most recognisable women in rock.

How Amyl and the Sniffers star found herself in a legal stoush with a US photographer

She’s one of the most famous women in rock right now, but Amy Taylor has found herself in a kind of spotlight she’d rather have avoided.

  • Karl Quinn
GIF: Swimming pools across NSW

When the mercury soars, these local pools prove the place to stay cool

Just as Sydney flocks to beaches and ocean baths, public swimming pools sit at the heart of the regional towns. Chief photographer Kate Geraghty has spent the summer visiting.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Geraghty
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The Age visual journalist trainee Ruby Alexander.

The Age welcomes new visual journalist trainee

A talented young photographer with dreams of becoming a foreign correspondent is joining the award-winning photographic team at The Age as a visual journalist trainee.

Tear gas is deployed as dozens of protesters gather at the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Chicago.

Why Audrey Richardson runs towards rubber bullets and tear gas

The Herald’s new photographic trainee has shot for the Chicago Tribune and The Seattle Times and covered the 2024 US election, Kamala Harris’ campaign, and campus shootings.

  • Kayla Olaya
Australian photographer Ponch Hawkes has been documenting our lives for five decades.

From counter-culture to suburban nudes: Melbourne lives captured through a lens

Like Helen Garner, Ponch Hawkes has documented the lives of Melburnians. Her acclaimed photographs are a window on decades of social change and everyday moments.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
Hundreds of pipers were piping in Melbourne’s Federation Square in November to break a world record in honour of AC/DC.

The day bagpipers stormed Fed Square ... with a little help from AC/DC

They came to set a new world record. And with the help of Accadacca’s Long Way to the Top, the kilted musicians got there.

  • Karl Quinn