These are awarded to distinguished persons having, from their position or attainments, an intimate connection with the science or fine art of photography or the application thereof.
The maximum number of Honorary Fellowships in any year is limited to 8, in addition to those awarded with the Progress, Centenary, Outstanding Achievement and any other Awards. If the Progress Medal is awarded to a small team of up to 3 persons, the total number of awards of Honorary Fellowship to the team shall count as only one award, for the purposes of determining the total number of Honorary Fellowships awarded in that year. In addition to the eight Honorary Fellowships and in addition to any Honorary Fellowships awarded with the Progress, Centenary and Outstanding Achievement awards, an Honorary Fellowship shall be awarded to any duly appointed President upon them taking up the office of President
Society Presidents are noted in bold.
2023 Lynsey Addario, Lisa Barnard, Siân Davey, Laura El-Tantawy, Noémie Goudal, Justine Kurland, Frida Orupabo, Lorna Simpson
2022 Laia Abril, Dawoud Bey, Victor Burgin, Craig Easton, Jo Ractliffe, Ming Smith, Dafna Talmor,
and Ajamu X
2021 Vanley Burke, VALIE EXPORT, Lola Flash, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Dana Lixenberg, Alec Soth, Mitra Tabrizian, Simon Hill
2020 James Barnor, Edward Burtynsky, Sunil Gupta, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Melanie Manchot, Gideon Mendel, Tracey Moffat, Richard Mosse, Shirin Neshat
2019 Professor Anna Fox, Joy Gregory, Clare Strand, Hannah Starkey & Carrie Mae Weems, Alan Hodgson
2018 Edmund Clark, Mat Collishaw, Professor Karen Knorr, Sarah Moon,
Zanele Muholi, Vanessa Winship
2017 Garry Fabian Miller, Mark Power, Taryn Simon, Joel Sternfeld, Robert Albright
2016 David Hurn, Adam Fuss, Hellen van Meene, Ingrid Pollard, Mert & Marcus
2015 Bryan Adams, Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low, Nadav Kander,
Vivane Sassen, Walter Benzie
2014 Marc Aspland, Harry Borden, Susan Derges, David Land, Chris
Steele-Perkins, John Swannell, Hugh Turvey
2013 Giles Duley, Tim Flach, Peter Fraser, Jane Hilton, Simon Roberts FRPS,
Derek Birch
2012 Doug Allan. Ian Beesley, Rineke Dijkstra, Rinko Kawauchi, Sally Mann,
Tim Walker
2011 Jason Bell, Stuart Blake, John Downing OBE, Simon King OBE, Bob Martin,
Mario Testino, Roy Robertson
2010 Sian Bonnell, Keith Cavanagh, Tom Hunter, Ken Lennox, John Reardon,
Stephen Shore
2009 Harry Benson, Dorothy Bohm, Simon Crocker, Paul Graham,
Professor Jem Southam, Rosemary Wilman
2008 John Chillingworth, Joe Cornish, Dr Peter Magubane, Dr Daniel Meadows,
Zed Nelson, Ben Osborne
2007 Nick Danziger, David Goldblatt, Dr Adam Hart-Davis, Barry Lategan,
Professor Deng Wei, Barry Senior
2006 René Burri, Brian Griffin, Peter Marlow, Steve Pyke MBE, Yang Shaoming,
Tom Stoddart
2005 Darren Heath, Jenny Matthews, Steve McCurry, Martin Parr,
Denis Thorpe FRPS, Art Wolfe, Gus Wylie
2004 Philippe Garner, Dewi Lewis, Anne McCauley, Terry O’Neill, Aidan Sullivan,
Humphrey Spender
2003 Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Jillian Edelstein, Dr Stuart Franklin, Dr Mike Maloney,
Albert Watson, Dr Leo K K Wong, Roger Reynolds
2002 Polly Borland, Terence Pepper, Uwe Ommer, Thomas Mangelsen,
Rankin Waddell, Joel Meyerowitz
2001 Shahidul Alam, Dr Margaret Benyon, Jill Freedman, Sidney Ray,
Richard Sullivan, Cliff Thompson, John Page, Prof Raymond P Clark
2000 Jane Bown, David Doubilet, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Thurston Hopkins,
O P Sharma, Carole Sartain
1999 David Bailey, Colin Ford, Mario Giacomelli, Frans Lanting,
James Nachtwey, Dr Arthur Saunders
1998 John Blakemore, Terry Fincher, Michael Rand, Marc Riboud,
Christina Garcia Rodero, John Birkett
1996/7 Professor Griedrich Granzer, Hiroshi Hamaya, Mark Haworth-Booth,
R Phillips, O Winston Link, Robert Moore
1995 Ian Berry, Bryn Campbell, C T Chang, Hans P Kraus Jr, Grace Robertson
1994 Freddie Reed, Elliott Erwitt, Jim Moorfoot, K F Wong, Bill Wisden,
Edwin Appleton
1993 Professor Ralph Jacobson, Eve Arnold, Jean Dieuzaide, Amanda Nevill
1992 George Rodger, Peter C Bunnell, Willy Ronis, Michael Austin
1991 Tim Gidal, Joan Wakelin, Robert Doisneau, Duane Michals
1990 Barry Wilkins. Dr Maurice Van de Weyer, Sakda Siripant,
Professor John W Gates, Brian Bower
1989 Fay Godwin, S K Gajree, Dr Hereward Pietsch, Ray Lunnon, L Athol-Shmith
1988 H M King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, Wellington Lee, Grace Lock,
Colin Osman, Chakravarthy Rajagopal, Arthur Downes
1987 Donald Barba, Prof Chin San Long, Graham Saxby
1986 Heather Angel, Dr I Bowie, Wong Shiu Gun, Prof Ralph Marshall,
Dr Douglas Wilson
1985 Sam Hanna, Gracie Alison, Bert Hardy, Frank Hawkins, Pat Whitehouse
1984 Charles P Hodge, Maurice Broomfield, H Roy Thornton, F J Worton,
David Bowen Thomas, Andor Kraszna-Krausz, Chris Roberts
1983 Dr Gerand Levenson, Dr G Thomas, Dr Robert W G Hunt,
HRH The Princess Margaret, Ray Ruddick, Gerald Thompson
1982 Charles E Brown, J A Fairfax-Fozzard, E Chambre Hardman,
Kenneth Moreman, Dr Guy Stevens, Sue Davies, Dr Leslie Bowcock
1981 Harry Ricketts, Jack Coote, Walter Nurnberg, Philip Smethurst, David Young
1980 Sir George Pollock
1979 George Aston
1978 Geoffrey Crawley, Chris Roberts, William A J Paul , Michael Langford,
Fred Harris
1977 Don McCullin, Derek Knight, Frank Greaves, Gerald Brock, Harold White
1976 Ansel Adams, Dr Vernon G W Harrison, Dr R E Lassam, Prof J Malinowsky,
Dr Joseph Schweig
1975 Prof J Pouradier, William Poucher, Tom Hopkinson, Arthur T Gill,
John P Delaney
1974 Donald Herbert, Leslie Wheeler, D H O John, Peter Wilkinson
1973 Ron J Cox, H Roy Hudson
1972 E O Hoppé, Dr Edith Wayde, Reggie Mason, Stanley Bowler
1970 A A Englander, Dr Peter Hansal, Josef Karsh
1969 Dr Tony Axford, Beaumont Newhall, Norman F Boyes
1968 Lord Snowdon, Norman Parkinson, Dr J A Leermakers, Mr E Selwyn,
Prof Dr Gotthadt Wolf, Glenn Earl Matthews, Dr G W G Maclennan
1967 Eric Hoskins, Herbert Mills Cartwright , Freddie Young
1966 Herbert Felton, Kenneth H Gaseltine, Arthur J Dalliday, H D J Cole
1965 Cecil Beaton CBE, Norman Harrison
1964 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Prof Eberhard Klein, Victor Gallafent, Horace Murch,
J B Eaton, Dr C J Staud
1963 Prof O Helwich, Dr E R Davies OBE, Dr Frances Mary Hamer, Dr L Helwich,
Dr E R Davies, John Chear, Eaton
1962 William Bell Hislop, John Bardsley, André Rott
1961 W F Berg, Laurence Hallett
1960 Sir Cyril Henschelwood OM, Professor Margaret Harker
1959 Stanley J Coleman
1958 Arthur Lindsey McRae Sowerby
1957 John I Crabtree, Dr Julian Webb, Dr J D Kendall, Dr Marcel Abribat,
Karel Jan Hora, Mark Oliver Dell
1956 Mary Field, W R Kaye, Betram Sinkinson, Lucien Bull CBE, Mark Oliver Dell
1955 Mary Field OBE, Lucien Bell CBE, Karel Jan Horer
1953 R B Fishenden OBE, ID Wratten, Prof John Eggert, Thomas Illingworth
1952 William Edward Gundhill OBE, J N Unwalla
1951 Percy W Harris, L V Chilton, A C Bull
1950 Percy Harris
1949 Dr Loyd Ancile Jones, Harry Abbott, José Ortiz Echagüe, Dr Drahomir Ruzicka
1948 Oliver G Pike, Frank R Fraprie, Frederick Tritton
1947 John M Whitehead
1946 George Pearson OBE, Adolf Fassbender, William Edward Henry Till
1945 G C Weston, Dr Harry Baines
1944 Donald McMaster, John G Capstaff, Dr Julian Smith
1943 Donald McMaster, Joseph M Bing
1942 Edward Epstean, (Cecil) M Hepworth, G C Weston, Prof Konstantine
Vladimirovich Chibosov
1939 R H Lawton, Arthur S Newman, Prof Dr W Reinders, Captain WH Jackson,
Edmund R Robins, J B B Wellington
1938 Wiliam Henry Jackson, Wiliam C Davies, Dr D A Spencer
1937 HH the Maharaj Bahandur of Tangore, Sir Prodyot Coomer, AVR van
Oudstoorn, H Mortimer Lamb, Walter Thomas, Albert J Bull, Harold
Cazneaux
1936 Robert Chalmers
1935 Frank M Sutcliffe, John BB Wellington, Robert Chalmers, T Lee Syms, J Bull
1933 Olaf Bloch, H Bedford Lemere
1932 Frances James Mortimer CBE, Bertram J Cox
1931 Edward J Steichen, Pirie MacDonald, James Shaw FRSA, Alvin Langdon
Coburn, Harold Holcroft
1930 B V Storr
1928 Frederick H Evans
1927 Thomas H B Scott
1926 Dr C E K Mees, Samuel E Sheppard
1925 Louis Lumière, J Dudley Johnston
1924 George E Brown, R Child Bayley, James Craig Annan, Alexander Keighley,
Louis Phillippe Clerc
1923 WLF Wastell
1922 Dr G H Rodman, Frank Foster Renwick
1918 John H Gear, Sir William Pope
1916 John Furley Lewis
1915 Lord Brabazon of Tara
1914 Henry Chapman Jones, William Bates Ferguson KC
1910 John C S Mummery
1905 Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Demachy
1903 Dr E Valenta
[1882 Prof. Josef Maria Eder]