After the success of our 2023 photography prize, we are gearing up for the 2025 Galah Regional Photography Prize and we need your help.
Could you be a quiet ally for our 2025 photography prize?
After the success of our 2023 photography prize, we are gearing up for the 2025 Galah Regional Photography Prize and we need your help.
It can be expensive to enter these competitions so we are raising funds to subsidise some of the costs of entry (printing, framing and shipping) for the 40 photographers who will be chosen to exhibit in the finalists' exhibition.
So far we have raised $18,000. can you help us reach our goal of $30,000 in the next four days? Cut off date is this Friday, December 21.
Last week we received a generous donation to our artist subsidy fund. The beautiful story behind it is published below. We hope it inspires you to help us reach our goal. Here's to the quiet allies among us.
Annabelle x
Just quickly, here some prize dates to note;
We are over halfway to our goal of raising $30,000 for the Galah Photography Prize artist subsidy. Whatever we raise will be split evenly among the 40 finalists to go towards the cost of printing, framing and shipping (which can run into the thousands). If you can contribute, please click here, we will all be so grateful.
Here is the story of last week’s donation. Thank you Lisa.
I donated $2000 to the 2025 Galah Regional Photography Prize Artist Subsidy in my dad’s name. (In my mind I’m calling it the Chris Richardson Quiet Ally Artist Fund.)... Community and culture are, in my mind, the panacea for pretty much everything that is awry in the world, but they don’t come from nothing, for nothing.
They require constant care and feeding. I’m so grateful for Annie and the Galah team, for making that effort. I like the idea of my Dad becoming a posthumous patron of the regional arts community, being a small part of that work.
Dad died in August. He was born in West Wyalong, worked in Caboolture for 15 years and spent the last 20 years living on acreage outside Gympie which he spoke of as the realization of a life-long dream. I’d confined him from his small handful of years as a suburban dad, but really, he was happiest looking over the neighbour’s dam on his little patch of bush, tracking the life and times of the possums and the resident python and the birds, and tending his fruit trees.
What made the prospect of getting older hard for him, what made him someone who planned to take his own life rather than decline over a long period of time, I think is something he has in common with so many regional and rural Australian men. Certainly, one of the amazing nurses in ICU, who hailed from Tamworth, nodded knowingly when she learned a little of his circumstances and how he’d ended up in intensive care. She was visiting her parents that weekend and sympathized with the tricky task of caring for proud and independent people who don’t want to be a burden on anyone. In the end, my dad's plan was unsuccessful, and we got two very honest weeks together, before his heart gave out. I wish it had been easier for him to find a community to go alongside all the things he loved about where he lived and I wonder if he’d been able to create that for himself, if we’d still have a few more years with him.
He was the best quiet ally of my life and of my brother’s and I’ll forever miss having him in my court. But I like the idea of offering him over to you, dear regional photographers… to be one of your quiet allies in the beautiful work you do of witnessing every day moments of every day folk and out of the way places and offering them up to our sightlines.
The prize is open to regional photographers making any type of still photography – fine art, photojournalism, portraiture, landscape, documentary, collage etc.
To be eligible, you must live in regional Australia. We are using Regional Australia Institute’s definition – “everything beyond the major capital cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra.”
Eligible postcodes can be found here.
If you are an Australian photographer living outside the capital cities, this prize is for you. Enter here.
The Galah Regional Photography Prize is supported by our generous patrons including the Burton Taylor Foundation, and facilitated by Creative Partnerships Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund. Our charity partner is Country Education Foundation – the work they do for school leavers in regional Australia is outstanding. And our media partners are the brilliant Good Weekend magazine and local New England media platform REGGIE from the team at FOUND Regional.
