This medal was instituted in 1933 when Mr Harold Hood (Fellow) offered to present annually a medal for meritorious performance in some branch of photography, with particular emphasis on any exhibit which revealed the most outstanding advance in photography for public service

Previous recipients of the Hood Medal include:

1933       G Aubourne Clarke
1935       Edwin H Land
1936       J Crowther Cos
1948       J W Cottingham
1939       J A Fairfax-Fozzard
1941       H Bedford Lemere
1942       Basil Hill
1945       Margaret F Harker
1946       J Crowther Cos
1947       S H Thorpe
1948       Margaret F Harker
1949       W Mortensen
1950       L M Condax
1951       Institute of Ophthalmology (Department of Medical Illustration)
1956       A Faulkner Taylor
1957       Clive Cadwallader
1958       Maurice Broomfield
1959       E Victor Willmott
1960       Walter Nurnberg
1961       Alan S Marshall
1962       Adolf Morath
1964       Gordon Clemetson
1966       T C Dodds
1968       W H Baddeley
1970       K G Moreman
1971       Stephen Dalton
1972       Pat Whitehouse
1973       John Chittock
1974       R M Callender
1975       Heather Angel
1976       Ronald Smith
1977       Jacques Cousteau
1978       Lord Snowdon
1979       Richard Attenborough
1980       Harold Evans
1981       Freddie Reed
1982       Brian Tremain
1983       John Webster
1984       Brian Coe
1985       Leslie Ryder
1986       Zoe Dominic
1987       Mark Haworth-Booth
1988       Clifford Bestall
1989       Colin Ford
1990       Dr Mike Ware
1992       Llanfranco Colombo
1993       Dr Karl Steinorth
2003       Joop Berendsen, Tom Gatsonides, Ted Janssen
2004       Mark Holborn
2005       Mike Birbeck FRPS
2006       Ron Smith
2007       Mark Sealy
2008       Gina Glover
2009       François Hébel
2010       Tiffany Fairey, Anna Blackman
2011       Edmund Clark
2012       Marcus Bleasdale