Entries for the 2025 Galah Regional Photography Prize are now open. If you are an Australian photographer living outside the capital cities, this prize is for you. There’ll be $25,000 for the winner and a big party to celebrate the finalists, just like our 2023 prize. But we’
Entries for the 2025 Galah Regional Photography Prize are now open. If you are an Australian photographer living outside the capital cities, this prize is for you.
There’ll be $25,000 for the winner and a big party to celebrate the finalists, just like our 2023 prize. But we’ve also made some improvements for the 2025 prize, including introducing an “artist fee” for finalists to help ease the burden of printing and framing costs, as well as an eight week exhibition in a regional art museum, open to the public and free to enter.
We’ve also tweaked our definition of “regional”. For the 2023 prize, you were considered regional if you lived outside of Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane. But we’ve tightened it up a little for the 2025 prize. Now, we’re using Regional Australia Institute’s definition of regional – “everything beyond the major capital cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra.” Eligible postcodes can be found here.
Our intention is to celebrate excellence in contemporary photography made by people who live in regional Australia. We love artists, we love what you bring to regional communities, we want to celebrate you.
You’ll find the entry form and all the information about the prize, including our T&Cs, via the button below.
Entries close midnight Monday 10 February 2025
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New England Regional Art Museum 106 - 114 Kentucky Street Armidale NSW 2350
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.
The purpose of the prize is to support regional artists to pursue whatever photographic form and content they are interested in. The subject matter can be “regional” but it doesn’t have to be. There is no theme. There are no categories. We welcome all types of still, 2D photography – fine art, photojournalism, portraiture, landscape, documentary, collage etc – made by regional photographers.
$35 per entry
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.
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.
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 are raising money here to create an “artists subsidy” fund. The fund will be divided equally between the 40 finalists to help offset these costs. We’ve raised $12,000 so far – which translates to a $300 fee for each of the 40 finalists – but I am hoping to raise more money before the end of the year.
Please read the Terms and Conditions of entry before you enter.
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.
