Honorary Life Membership) This award, established in 1980 and named after Roger Fenton, one of the RPS's founders, is made for an outstanding contribution to the work of The Royal Photographic Society. Usually, up to four Fenton Medals are awarded each year and since 1998 this award carries Honorary Membership of the RPS. Hood Medal This medal is awarded "for a body of photographic work produced to promote or raise awareness of an aspect of public benefit or service". It was instituted in 1933 when Harold Hood offered to present an annual medal for photography with a particular emphasis on work for public service. The recipients have been: 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 – Mike Ware 1992 – Llanfranco Colombo 1993 – Karl Steinorth 2003 – Joop Berendsen, Tom Gatsonides, Ted Janssen 2004 – Mark Holborn 2005 – Mike Birbeck 2006 – Ron Smith 2007 – Mark Sealy 2008 – Gina Glover 2009 – François Hébel 2010 – Tiffany Fairey, Anna Blackman 2011 – Edmund Clark 2012 – Marcus Bleasdale 2013 – Derek Kendall 2014 – James Balog 2015 – Jean-Jacques Naudet 2016 – Nick Hedges 2017 – Siân Davey 2019 – Laia Abril 2020 – Poulomi Basu 2021 – Dexter McLean 2022 – Hoda