"The Reuters photographer's shot of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaving Aylsham police station in the back of his Range Rover is an image filled with shock, pain and horror. Noble's harsh, blinding flash paints Andrew in pink, red and white his skin is sickly, his eyes are hollow and red like a rat's. His hands are steepled as if in prayer, like he's pleading with a higher power for absolution."
"Only this one came out right. Only this one gave us a private glimpse of power crumbling and rotting away in real time. Eerily similar Prince Philip leaving hospital in 2019. Photograph: Jeff Gilbert/REX/Shutterstock In the social media and cameraphone age, it's harder than ever for a single image to stand out, to rise above the visual noise we are bombarded with. That this one has somehow done so shows how important and powerful it is."
"It's the eyes that do it. They suck you into the photo's abyss: Mountbatten-Windsor is aghast, stupefied, frozen in wide-eyed dismay and distress. Those red eyes, like two little portals to hell, are not angry or vicious: they are dazed and overwhelmed. They're the same eyes you see in the anguished howler of Edvard Munch's The Scream or Gustave Courbet's Desperate Man."
A Reuters photograph shows Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaving Aylsham police station in the back of his Range Rover, rendered by a harsh flash into pink, red and white tones. The lighting makes his skin look sickly and his eyes hollow and red, while his steepled hands suggest pleading or prayer. The image emerged by chance from several failed frames and offers a stark portrayal of personal anguish and public decline. The photograph stands out amid visual noise in the social media age and evokes comparisons to iconic anguished artworks, underscoring its symbolic power.
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