Entries for the 2025 Galah Regional Photography Prize have now closed

We received more than 1100 entries for the 2025 Galah Regional Photography Prize. Thank you to all who entered. It's an incredible collection of photography.

Next steps

• Finalists announced 28 February 2025
• Prize announcement and party 3 May 2025
• Exhibition duration 11 April - 8 June 2025

Location

‍New England Regional Art Museum ‍106 - 114 Kentucky Street Armidale NSW 2350

What are the prizes?

• Open prize winner receives $25,000, plus a photographic essay published in Galah’s print magazine
• People’s choice winner receives $2,000
• Award for Excellence in Photojournalism, presented by Good Weekend magazine, winner receives 4 X 1 hour Zoom mentoring sessions with photographers and editors from Good Weekend‍

All finalists will be exhibited at NERAM for eight weeks from April 2025. The winners will be announced at a party at NERAM on Saturday 3 May, 2025. All works in the exhibition will be for sale, and artists will receive 70 per cent commission of the sale price.

‍Who are the judges?

The 2025 judging panel is made up of Director of NERAM Rachael Parsons, Good Weekend magazine editor Katrina Strickland, photographer and winner of the 2023 Galah Regional Photography Prize Adam Ferguson, acclaimed portrait photographer Hugh Stewart, and Galah's art editor Fiona Bateman.

Forty finalists will be chosen from the pool of digital entries submitted here, and the winners will be chosen in person at the finalists’ exhibition.

What happens if I am a finalist?

Finalists will be notified by email by 9 March 2025. Finalists will be required to send their work printed and framed to exhibition standards to NERAM in Armidale between the dates of 31 March to 4 April 2025. All works in the exhibition will be for sale. Finalists can choose to also have a limited edition print run of the work available for sale too, although this is totally optional. See our T&Cs for all the details.

‍Galah understands the financial burden that printing, framing and freight places on artists. We have raised funds to create an “artists subsidy”. All 40 finalists will receive $524 per image to offset these costs.

Terms and Conditions of entry

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.