A former medical photographer has received a top award from the Royal Photographic Society for his work.

Robert Louden Brown was awarded the new Senior Imaging Scientist qualification for his medical photographs of surgery work - some of which were of the back of people’s eyes.

Lieutenant Governor Sir Richard Gozney presented him with the award and fellowship certificates from the society at Government House in Onchan.

His winning photographs were from earlier work as an advisor in medical photography and illustration which he retired from in 2007. He was formerly a public health specialist with the then Department of Health and Social Security in the island.

’It was a friend of mine who had encouraged me to enter my photographs,’ Mr Louden Brown, who lives in Port St Mary, said.

’I had to go back into the archives to find them. To me I had closed the chapter on my work. We used the images as an investigative tool to help diagnoses and they were used as a follow up for clinical outcomes and research. I worked as an imaging scientist for 30 years.’

The award can be given at four levels, with the senior level (ASIS) being the highest distinction.

Mr Louden Brown is a former regional chief medical photographer in the west of Scotland and director of medical illustration at Glasgow University.