Prince Harry and the herdsman: can we really fall for this imperial hokum? | Jonathan Jones

This photograph is as arrogant as any colonial portrait. Harry may as well have a gun in his hand and a dead lion at his feet

Prince Harry squints like a serious photographer as he points his £729 Fuji X100 camera at a Lesotho herder. The red-walled room they are in emphasises the intimacy of the moment, as the youth poses patiently and Harry seeks that perfect, defining instant of truth.

What is wrong with this picture? Where to start? It is a specious salmagundi of complacent assumptions and frightening arrogance.

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