Photos of the week, January 21st, 2021
A week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial Review photographers.
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Swimmers enjoys the surf on a brisk summer morning at Bondi Beach. As community transmission has eased more people have been getting down to the water.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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Bangarra Dance Theatre’s 30-year repertoire, set to a haunting score. Spirit: A Retrospective 2021 immerses audiences in narratives and songlines drawn from all over Australia, in a celebration of First Nations Peoples’ connection to country. Bangarra dancers Kiarn Doyle, Bradley Smith and Rika Hamaguchi.Credit:James Brickwood
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Andrew Turley with partner Rachael Ash in their living room, where they have several Sidney Nolans. Andrew has written a yet unpublished book about Nolan and his travels, including a chapter on Nolan’s visit to Auschwitz.Credit:Louie Douvis
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Sugercane farmer Robert Quirk, Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Geoff Provest, Member for Tweed, at Tumbulgum, Tweed Valley.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Rhys Kosakowski of the Sydney Dance Company.Credit:Louie Douvis
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Philomina Afriyie with her triplets Shane, Shanette, and Shanelle,will turn five at the end of the month, and start school a few days later. For them, it’s an exciting beginning; for Philomina, it’s an opportunity to put the grief of the past behind, and look forward to a brighter future.Credit:Janie Barrett
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Ester Borean, diver master at Dive Centre Manly diving school, takes a group of divers for a dive in Cabbage Tree Bay, Shelly Beach. When international borders closed, dive shop operator Richard Nicholls saw a large part of his business dry up almost overnight. Mr Nicholls, who owns the Dive Centre Manly, said before the coronavirus pandemic lockdown in March, half his business was made up of international tourists.Credit:James Brickwood
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Smoke looms behind Elizabeth Beach NSW from the Horse Point Rd, Bungwahl fire. The residents and holiday makers off Seal Rocks, Bluyes Beach, Boomerang Beach, and Elizabeth Beach couldn’t help but feel a sense of deja vu as smoke fills the skies from the Horse Point Rd, Bungwahl fire.Credit:Jessica Hromas
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A siege on Lurline and Leichhardt Streets, Katoomba. A Blue Mountains man has been charged with a string of domestic violence offences following a four-hour stand-off with police.Credit:Dean Sewell
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian, meeting some of the Macksville community at Macksville showground. Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Planning Minister Rob Stokes plays soccer with some kids from the Balmain and District Football Club, at Callan Park. The government is going to move the carpark and give the football club a new building. Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
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Professor Francois Aguey-Zinsou with examples of hydrogen cell technologies including solar charged battery on a roof.Credit:Nick Moir
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Flickerfest director Bronwyn Kidd and short filmmaker Milena Bennett at the The Spiegeltent at Bondi Beach. The festival’s traditional home, the Bondi Pavilion, is being renovated so Flickerfest had already planned a shift in location. This year it will be held on the North Park lawn at Bondi Beach with the Famous Spiegeltent – a touring European mirror tent that has become a staple on the festival route – to be used for indoor screenings.Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Legendary Paddington restaurateur Lucio Galletto is retiring after 37 years and the fabled art collection which lines the walls, painted by the artists who have long frequented Lucio’s, is being auctioned in late February.Credit:Louie Douvis
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Triple J breakfast hosts Bryce Mills and Ebony Boadu in Ultimo, Sydney.Credit:Sam Mooy
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Elyse McDonough and flatmate Ceclia Oppenheimer, with Cavalier pup ‘Daisy’, at their rental property at Bellvue Hill in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.Credit:James Alcock
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Olivia is a trans girl who is now 17. She and her family, twin brother Stirling, father Angus and mother Lyndsay are sharing her transition story to help counter some of the other commentary about trans issues.Credit:Louie Douvis
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Daily life in Sydney’s Chinatown district, as people wear mandatory masks at bus stops.Credit:Louie Douvis
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Brother and sister professional footballers, Bernie Ibeni who plays for The Western Sydney Wanderers, A-League, and Princess Ibeni for Sydney FC, W-League. Credit:James Alcock
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Royal Australian Navy ship NUSHIP Supply enters Sydney Harbour and berths for the first time at her homeport at Garden Island. Credit:Louise Kennerley
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Surfers ride a large southerly swell at North Steyne Beach, Manly. The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast severe heatwave conditions to arrive over most of NSW and continue until Australia Day when a weak cold front is expected to move through.Credit:James Brickwood
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Daily life during COVID-19 at Ultimo Chinatown district. Credit:Louie Douvis
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Beachgoers at Shark Beach in Sydney.Credit:Steven Saphore
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Travel restrictions and border closures have been an unexpected boon for the Toowoon Bay Holiday Park on the Central Coast, which has had more bookings since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. Credit:Edwina Pickles
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Hamilton’s Australian costume workshop in Leichardt. Hamilton, the Tony, Grammy, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize winning musical, will make its Australian premiere at Sydney Lyric Theatre from 17 March 2021. Credit:James Brickwood
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Tristan White in the Berowra Valley National Park, in Sydney. Rogaining is an Australian extreme sport that has teams of people doing speed-orienteering in difficult terrain for 24-hours at a time, covering up to 100km. Tristian is in his 20s and the president of the NSW Rogaining and a huge part of making events happen in Australia.Credit:Sam Mooy
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Soon to be newly weds, Zishan Zeng and George Yang at the Christian Assembly of Sydney in Roseville during their wedding rehearsal.Credit:Cole Bennetts
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Taking the view at Govetts Leap Lookout. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service are upgrading the walking track along the Grand Canyon Walking Track, Blue Mountains.Credit:James Brickwood
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Emma Harvey on her yacht the Emma Jean.Credit:Cole Bennetts
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Whisky head distiller Beau Schilg at Corowa Distilling Co.Credit:Mark Anderson
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People self-picking peaches and plums at Bilpin’s Fruit Bowl. In recent years, the popularity of Pick-your-own fruit has soared across Sydney’s perri-urban fringe where fruit growers have opened their orchards. And in a pandemic year, people have been eager to take advantages of relaxed restrictions and escape the claustrophobia of urban Sydney to take their families on a weekend adventure.Credit:Dean Sewell
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Kitesurfer Jon Steel on Botany Bay at Monterey, Sydney.Credit:Sam Mooy
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Skaters take on the bowl, enjoying fine weather and a cool North-East breeze at Bondi Beach.Credit:James Alcock
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Mary Cloran, Jane Sinclair and Tim Bartlett, all of whom are twenty year-plus residents of David Street, Marrickville.Credit:Brook Mitchell
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A sign stating that beach numbers will be monitored due to current Covid-19 Coronavirus restrictions greets a jogger on Bondi Beach pre-dawn on 16 January, 2020. Photo: Brook MitchellCredit:Brook Mitchell
