Phil Noble is an English photojournalist working as a senior staff photographer with Reuters, based in Manchester.
Noble was born in Liverpool and is based in Manchester. [1] He studied photojournalism and press photography in Newport, South Wales and in Sheffield. [2]
Noble is a former deputy picture editor at the Manchester Evening News. From 1999 to 2006 he was a staff photographer at 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]
In 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]