This medal is awarded within the art or science of photography for a body of photographic work produced to promote or raise awareness of an aspect of public benefit or service.This medal was instituted in 1933 when Mr Harold Hood FRPS 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.
2022 Hoda Afshar
2021 Dexter McLean
2020 Poulomi Basu
2019 Laia Abril
2018 Thomas Dworzak
2017 Siân Davey
2016 Nick Hedges
2015 Jean-Jacques Naudet
2014 James Balog
2013 Derek Kendall
2012 Marcus Bleasdale
2011 Edmund Clark
2010 Tiffany Fairey, Anna Blackman
2009 François Hébel
2008 Gina Glover
2007 Mark Sealy
2006 Ron Smith
2005 Mike Birbeck FRPS
2004 Mark Holborn
2003 Joop Berendsen, Tom Gatsonides, Ted Janssen
1993 Dr Karl Steinorth
1992 Llanfranco Colombo
1990 Dr Mike Ware
1989 Colin Ford
1988 Clifford Bestall
1987 Mark Haworth-Booth
1986 Zoe Dominic
1985 Leslie Ryder
1984 Brian Coe
1983 John Webster
1982 Brian Tremain
1981 Freddie Reed
1980 Harold Evans
1979 Sir David Attenborough CBE
1978 Lord Snowdon
1977 Jacques Cousteau
1976 Ronald Smith
1975 Heather Angel
1974 R M Callender
1973 John Chittock
1972 Pat Whitehouse
1971 Stephen Dalton
1970 Kenneth G Moreman
1969 Douglas Lawson
1968 Hugh Baddeley
1966 T C Dodds
1965 T C Dodds
1964 Gordon Clemetson
1962 Adolf Morath
1961 Alan S Marshall
1960 Walter Nurnberg
1959 E Victor Willmott
1958 Maurice Broomfield
1957 Clive Cadwallader
1956 A Faulkner Taylor
1951 Institute of Ophthalmology (Department of Medical Illustration)
1950 L M Condax
1949 W Mortensen
1948 Margaret F Harker
1947 S G Thorpe
1946 J Crowther Cox
1943 Margaret F Harker
1942 Basil Hill
1941 H Bedford Lemere
1939 J A Fairfax-Fozzard
1948 J W Cottingham
1936 J Crowther Cox
1935 Edwin H Land
1933 G Aubourne Clarke