1. An image recording process which comprises a step of (i) imagewise exposing a layer containing at least silver halide of an image recording material comprising (a) silver halide, (b) a reducing agent capable of developing silver halide, (c) a photopolymerization sensitizing dye capable of being reduced into a leuco substance by said reducing agent, (d) a polymerizable vinyl monomer and (e) a hydrogen donative compound, to light to form a latent image, a step of (ii) uniformly heating said recording material to form a photopolymerization sensitizing dye image in a part corresponding to said latent image, and thereafter a step of (iii) uniformly exposing a layer containing at least said formed photopolymerization sensitizing dye image and said polymerizable vinyl monomer to light to form a polymer image in the part where said photopolymerization sensitizing dye image is present, by photopolymerization.