Check the other darker pictures for what it looked like in real life. (lifeisjustrosie.tv)
According to Catherine Lampert, Auerbach's model of over 35 years: «It wasn't that he intended to document something about post-war London or paint dark pictures, it was that he didn't feel he could turn his back on that raw subject matter.» (artfund.org)
Recent media reports indicating that seafarers were working on P&O cruise ships for 75p per hour paint a very dark picture of the UK shipping industry, with accusations of poverty pay and slave conditions following closely behind. (politics.co.uk)