The Asociación OF Outono Fotográfico, the Galician Regional Government, and the Lugo City Council are organising the XII PREMIO GALICIA DE FOTOGRAFÍA CONTEMPORÁNEA (XII GALICIA AWARD OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY), according to the following terms.

FIRST | Object

To promote the contemporary photography and the ethical aspects that generally rise from the contemporary art in relation to the forms of domination and the imposition of limits of thought.To promote the creation of a photographic space in Galicia that complements the one created for more than three decades by the Festival Otoño Fotográfico through the incentive of proposals of visual-photographic character or of those others that fit in the scope of the "Photographic", in the widest sense of the term, on the part of both national and foreign authors.

Any author who works with photography and the photographic independently of their nationality may participate since the Jury's decision and that of the organization will weigh in a special way their insertion in the discourse of contemporary photography.

SECOND | Award

To address the two approaches outlined above, two awards will be established. All proposals registered in the competition will be eligible for these awards.

1. A JURY PRIZE will be awarded, consisting of the:

PRODUCTION OF AN EXHIBITION with the awarded photographic project. The OF. Outono Fotográfico Association will appoint a curator responsible for the design, editing, and sizing of the exhibition. TOUR. The exhibition will be inaugurated in Lugo (Galicia) and will tour for 2 years through various cities in Galicia and Portugal. After the tour, the exhibition will become the property of the author.

PUBLICATION OF A BOOK with the awarded photographic project, as part of the "GALICIA CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE" series of the "OF" collection by the Difusora de Letras Artes e Ideas publishing house, which will appoint the editor and designer of the book to be distributed in bookstores. The author will be entitled to a percentage of the book's print run.

ITINERANCY. The exhibition will be inaugurated in Lugo and could travel for two years. It could also be part of the programme drawn up for this purpose by both the Lugo City Council and the Galician Regional Government.

2. A ORGANISATION PRIZE consisting of the PRODUCTION OF AN EXHIBITION of similar characteristics to the previous one, at the Alterarte Gallery on the Ourense Campus (University of Vigo), opening in November 2026 and closing in January 2027, and the PUBLICATION OF A BOOKLET which will accompany the exhibition and will be published as the previous one.

A single prize will be awarded, consisting of the PRODUCTION OF AN EXHIBITION and/or the PUBLICATION OF A BOOK.

THIRD | Characteristics of the project to be presented

Participating authors must submit a photographic project made on any date between September 2015 and September 2024, and which has not previously been subsidised in its entirety or being subject of a grant in any other competition, or published in its entirety on any medium, with complete freedom in terms of theme and technique.

FOURTH | Submission deadline and conditions

The period for submitting the works will be 24 July to 30 September 2025. The projects will be submitted on the platform in https://site.picter.com/premiogalicia-2025

FIFTH | Documentation to be submitted

1. Synopsis and/or authorial text of no more than 2,500 characters. It may contain links to the author's website, to videos, to other images of the project presented, or to other projects.
2. A maximum of 15 images of the project. The images must be at least 3,000 pixels in their longest size in JPG format.
3. Author's biography with a maximum of 1500 characters. It can contain links to the web, social networks or a CV or extended BIO.

SIXTH | Composition of the Jury

Vítor Nieves. Curator, teacher, editor and researcher. Coordinator of the Galicia Award of Contemporary Photography.

Xosé Lois Vázquez. Photographer, designer and editor. President of the Asociación OF.

Outono Fotográfico.

Eva Torres. Director of Exhibition Spaces and Museum Areas at the Ourense City Council.

Aurelia Balseiro García. Director of the Provincial Museum of Lugo.

Secretary with voice but no vote Pablo González Prieto secretary of the Asociación OF. Outono Fotográfico.

SEVENTH | Process of selection of works and publicity of the verdict

1. The Jury will select five projects. These three will be the finalists. 

2. The organisation 'Asociación OF. Outono Fotográfico' will select a single project.

The names of the six authors will be announced on 13th October 2025 on the website www.outonofotografico.com and on the social media accounts of the 'Asociación OF. Outono Fotográfico'. The selection will be made taking into account the visual language, photographic quality and contemporary nature of the projects. The organisation's award will assess aspects ranging from the exploration of photographic language to the elements involved in the process of putting the photograph into circulation.

Forty-eight hours later, the jury will select the winner from the finalists. His/her name, along with that selected by the organisation, will be published on the channels mentioned above.

The Jury's decision will be final. The organisation will only contact the winner directly.

EIGHTH | Realisation of the project

The winner undertakes to deliver the set of images, texts or objects that make up the project before 22 October 2024. The organisation may contact the winner to supervise the work carried out. The "Asociación OF. Outono Fotográfico" will appoint a person to assist and tutor the winning project, as well as a curator for the possible exhibition. Additional material may be requested from the winner for inclusion in the book that may be published.

NINTH | Exhibition and edition of the book

The exhibition will be produced once the work has been delivered, so that it will be ready for its inauguration after 20 December 2025. At the same time, the book will be prepared.

TENTH | Acceptance of the Rules

Participation in the GALICIA AWARD OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY presupposes full acceptance of these rules and, if they are not complied with, will be subject to the dictates of the Jury, who will have an unappealable judgement.