Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesĪ culture of omertà prevails. Under the spotlight … Rebekah Vardy at the high court in London in May for the ‘Wagatha Christie’ trial. We go to Spain, shoot six bikini sets and stick them out throughout the month.” “I’ve been on holiday with celebrities,” says Parfitt, 22. But these celebrities are ringing us.” He estimates that 80% of his shots are set up in advance. “People think we are scumbags hanging out of trees.
“I think a lot of people are quite dumb to how it works,” says the Manchester-based paparazzo Aaron Parfitt. In June, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling were snapped looking like a nightmare in neon while filming the much-awaited Barbie film on Venice Beach, Los Angeles. In March, the internet went into a paroxysm of nostalgia when Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck recreated a scene from Lopez’s 2002’s music video Jenny from the Block for the benefit of a conveniently positioned photographer with a long-lens camera. In January, the pop star and beauty entrepreneur Rihanna announced her pregnancy with a set of staged photographs showing her walking with her boyfriend, the rapper A$AP Rocky, in Harlem, New York City. Meanwhile, the public mania for paparazzi shots continues to grow. (Splash News and Backgrid are the leading photo agencies in the industry, responsible for most of the images sold into newspapers and magazines.) In the recently concluded “Wagatha Christie” libel case, text messages were submitted to the court in which Rebekah Vardy and her former agent Caroline Watt discussed tipping off the photo agency Splash News about the arrest of the footballer Danny Drinkwater, as well as arranging for a paparazzo to photograph – without their consent – a group of footballers’ partners leaving a restaurant during the 2018 World Cup. What the public does not see: the paparazzi who go on holiday with celebrities the agents who have paparazzi on speed dial the paparazzi who give a cut of their income to the people they photograph.īut recent months have seen the paparazzi thrust, blinking and unwilling, into the spotlight.
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Many people believe that freewheeling photographers happen to stumble across reality TV stars working out in full makeup, or musicians walking very slowly to their cars outside five-star hotels, or soap actors frolicking in the surf in Dubai. We have long lived in the age of paparazzi, yet the public in general is ignorant about the reality of how these images are created.
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