Jouhar became a Member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1938, achieved his Associateship in 1939 and his Fellowship in 1940. More or less continuously from 1944, until his death in 1963, he served on its Council and, as a keen Member of the Pictorial Group, he was its Honorary Secretary between 1944 and 1950, and later it’s Chairman
In 1944 he was elected a Member of the London Salon of Photography and was an active, consistent and prolific exhibitor for some eighteen years until his death. At that time, membership of the elite group was conferred and could not be applied for. At the time of his being invited to join, there were less than 30 members world-wide.
He never became President of the Royal Photographic Society – perhaps his occasionally abrasive approach and continual strive for change and development was unacceptable ! – or he felt that, as a ‘back-bencher’ his influence could be greater. However, he was not passive in accepting things as they were – he did not agree with all the policies and concepts of the Royal Photographic Society and he fought hard to bring about change, particularly in gaining acceptance that photgraphy was a “Fine Art”, and to this end he and other like-minded individuals formed the Photographic Fine Art Association in August 1961.