Entries for the 2025 Galah Regional Photography Prize are now open.

Galah Magazine is calling for entries in the 2025 Galah Regional Photography Prize.

"If you are an Australian photographer living outside the capital cities, this prize is for you."

The annual winner will receive $25,000 prize money and the magazine crew promises a "big party" to celebrate the finalists

"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.”

Image: Adam Ferguson

"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 T&Cs, here.

Eligible postcodes can be found here.

Entries close at midnight on Monday, February 10, 2025.

Finalists will be announced on February 28, with the prize announcement and party scheduled for May 3, 2025.

Exhibition will be held at the ‍New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale between April 11 and June 8, 2025.

Adam Ferguson’s portrait of drovers Faren and Violet (pictured above) won the inaugural prize in 2023.

Galah is an independent print magazine documenting regional Australia and publishes three times a year.