To provide a photothermal photographic image forming material having high sensitivity, low in fogging, having excellent storage property (raw preservability) before development and excellent storage property of image after development and showing little residual color after development.

The photothermal photographic image forming material having a photosensitive layer containing photosensitive silver halide particles, an organic silver salt, a reducing agent and a binder on a supporting body, is characterized in containing a compound expressed by general formula (1).