Galah 2025 Regional Photography Prize

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) presents The 2025 Galah Regional Photography Prize on the OUT THERE Forecourt Projector, visible after dark in the Gallery/Library Forecourt.

The 2025 Galah Regional Photography Prize exhibition is a collection of 42 outstanding images made by 37 regional photographers from across Australia – from the Pilbara in WA, Armidale NSW, and as far south as Willalooka in SA.

Galah is an independent print magazine documenting regional Australia and the people who live here. It hosts a photography prize every two years and this year’s finalists were selected from over 1,100 entries. The resulting exhibition showcases the diversity, complexity, and beauty of regional Australia.

"We created this prize to celebrate the incredible talent that exists beyond metropolitan art hubs," says Galah Press's founder, Annabelle Hickson. “And here it is, in all its glory.”

The exhibition was first presented in May 2025 in collaboration with, and at Armidale’s New England Regional Art Museum. The winner of this year’s $25,000 prize was Lisa Sorgini with The Flood and the $2,000 People's Choice award went to Sweetheart, Merriwa, an image by Maitland photographer Thérèse Maher of her daughter Eugenie giving a final farewell to a beloved horse.

View the exhibition catalogue here.

Featured Artists: Tim Baker, Robyn Barron, Paul Blackmore, M Ellen Burns, Sarah Cunningham, Anna Doyle, Elise Derwin, Nathan Dyer, Paul Foley, Danielle Fitzgerald, Christian Fletcher, Alex Frayne, Terrence Gillespie, Penelope Green, Natalie Grono, Margot Hughes, Em Jensen, Pia Johnson, Julian Kingma, Tracy Lees, Tess Lehman, Thérèse Maher, Robyn MacRae, Ellie Marinakis, Naomi McKenzie, Trent Mitchell, Rachel Mounsey, Tajette O'Halloran, Dean Sewell, Amelia Scholtz, Lisa Sorgini, Angela Stirling, Katrina Starmer, Mike Terry, Stephane Thomas, Rosa Spring Voss, Karen Webb.