In 2010, 25 of Mead's images from 1974 to 1977, many of them never printed before, were displayed at a London solo exhibition titled Looking Back at Mayfair gallery Hamilton's, with all funds donated to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. Prints from the exhibit and other works were afterward selected for inclusion in the 2011 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and Mead also had prints selected for the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. In 2012 the BBC Culture Show program profiled his work, and Mead published the book Looking Back afterwards, featuring prints from his twenties. In October 2017 the aerial photography and philosophy book Above the Clouds was published by Prestel, with prints from the book exhibited in January 2018 at Hamiltons.
