Phil Noble (photographer)

Following his volunteering work, he became deputy picture editor at the Manchester Evening News in 1996, serving until 1998. Then from 1999 to 2006, he was a staff photographer at news agency The Press Association before becoming a senior photographer at Reuters in February 2006.^[3] He has covered the Olympic Games, Rugby and Football World Cups, World Athletics Championships, Commonwealth games and Royal tours.^[4] In 2006 he was the BG Group Sports Photographer of the Year^[5] and was a finalist in the World Sports Photography Awards in 2023.^[6]

On 19 February 2026, he took a photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaving a police station following his arrest earlier that day.^[7] The image of a "haunted, shell-shocked" Andrew slumped in the back seat of a car appeared on many newspaper front pages and in other media worldwide.^[8] Noble told the BBC that while the photograph was not one of his best, it was one of his most important.^[9] While the photo certainly elevated his reputation, according to Belgian media lawyer Leo Neels [nl] it is unclear if Noble would become wealthy off of the copyright to the photo, as the common law model would grant more power to the employer to profit from the copyright.^[10] The political campaign group Everyone Hates Elon hung a framed copy of the photograph in the Louvre museum in Paris, labelling it "He's Sweating Now".^[11] Museum staff removed the photo after fifteen minutes.^[12]

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