Light-sensitive silver halide photographic material prevented in color contamination

A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer and at least one non-light-sensitive emulsion layer on a support, the improvement wherein a coupler represented by the following formula (M-VIII) and an anti-fading additive having a quenching rate constant of a singlet oxygen of 1.times.10.sup.7 M.sup.-1 .multidot.sec.sup.-1 or more, represented by the following formula (D) and having a molecular weight of 400 or more are contained in at least one layer of the light-sensitive emulsion layer, and a compound represented by the following formula (II) is contained in the non-light-sensitive emulsion layer adjacent to a layer containing said magenta coupler;

• ##STR32## wherein Z represents a group of non-metallic atoms necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring, the ring formed by said Z may have a substitutent(s), X represents hydrogen atom or an eliminatable group by the reaction with an oxidized product of a color developing agent, and R represents hydrogen atom or a substituent, ##STR33## wherein R.sup.12 and R.sup.13 each represent sec-decyl group, sec-docecyl group, sec-tetradecyl group, sec-pentadecyl group, sec-hexadecyl group, sec-octadecyl group, sec-eicosyl group, sec-triacontyl group, t-decyl group, t-dodecyl group, t-tetradecyl group, t-hexadeycl group, t-octadecyl group or t-eicosyl group, provided that total carbon atoms of the alkyl groups represented by R.sup.12 and R.sup.13 are 20 or more, ##STR34## wherein R.sup.1 represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group;
• Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 each represent an alkylene group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, provided that the total carbon atoms of the alkylene group represented by Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 are 3 to 6;
• and n is an integer of 1 or 2.