Hooper, Willoughby Wallace (1837-1912), British military officer in India who served in the 7th Madras Light Cavalry from 1858. In 1861 Hooper was seconded to take ethnographical photographs in the Central Provinces, and a number of these striking portraits, made with a fellow officer, George Western, were later published in The People of India (1868-75). Hooper again worked in collaboration with Western in the early 1870s on a series of narrative views illustrating such themes as hunting, and in 1876-8 produced a number of forceful studies of victims of the Madras Famine. As provost marshal of the Expeditionary Force which annexed Upper Burma in 1885-6, he provoked controversy by allegedly holding up a military execution in order to photograph the scene. His documentation of the campaign was subsequently published as Burmah: A Series of One Hundred Photographs (1887).
— John Falconer
