UPDATE: Entries are 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.
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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 have raised funds to create an “artists subsidy”. All 40 finalists will receive $524 per image to offset these costs.
You’ll find all the information about the prize, including our T&Cs, here.
Adam Ferguson’s portrait of drovers Faren and Violet (pictured above) won the inaugural 2023 Galah Regional Photography Prize.
The prize is proudly presented in collaboration with NERAM, Armidale Regional Council and the Burton Taylor Foundation. Our official charity partner is the Country Education Foundation, which empowers young people from across regional Australia through education. Galah also thanks our media partners GoodWeekend and Found Regional and its platform REGGIE and our drinks sponsors for the exhibition party ChaLou, Husk Rum and The Welder's Dog.
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