Photo of Lady Diane by Alison Jackson courtesy of Westlicht
Toronto. An honourable branch of photography is news photography. While many news photographers work for a specific newspaper or agency, many are free lance. Of the group, a small subset caters to shooting celebrities incessantly and trying to flog the results to gossip magazines or the yellow press. Collectively, such photographers are known as ‘paparazzi’.
The term ‘paparazzi‘ means ‘mosquitoes’ in Italian slang. Victims of paparazzi try their best to avoid or lose these pesky nuisances but not always with success – witness the deadly consequence such an attempted evasion had on Diane.
WestLicht in Vienna is featuring photographs by paparazzi in an exhibition of the same name from Nov 24 this year through to February 11, 2024. Have a look at the site.
