We present measurements of the UV galaxy luminosity function and the evolution of luminosity density from GALEX observations matched to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ( SDSS ) .
We analyze galaxies in the Medium Imaging Survey overlapping the SDSS DR1 with a total coverage of 44 \deg ^ { 2 } .
Using the combined GALEX+SDSS photometry , we compute photometric redshifts and study the LF in three redshift shells between z = 0.07 and 0.25 .
The Schechter function fits indicate that the faint-end slope \alpha is consistent with -1.1 at all redshifts but the characteristic UV luminosity M ^ { * } brightens by 0.2 mag from z = 0.07 to 0.25 .
In the lowest redshift bin , early and late type galaxies are studied separately and we confirm that red galaxies tend to be brighter and have a shallower slope \alpha than blue ones .
The derived luminosity densities are consistent with other GALEX results based on a local spectroscopic sample from 2dF and the evolution follows the trend reported by deeper studies .