“Social media overhauled the celeb photography game,” says Caleb Church, a crisis publicist for high-profile entertainers. “Paparazzi were able to capture moments that would have otherwise never been seen by the regular public, giving everyone access to some kind of voyeuristic pleasure,” she says. This, in turn, has stripped tabloids and classic pap shots of their “gotcha” power, says senior major label publicist Jennifer Taylor. Now, celebrities control their own narratives - they readily offer bikini bodies and makeup-free selfies from their own cameras, which are devoured by fans despite the digital nip-tucks - and call photographers like Diggs to stop by at their own whims. But social media has turned the pap-celeb relationship from one of contention to collaboration.
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In the early 2000s, you’d hear frequently about clashes between paps and celebs, from stunts gone wrong to outright violence, and the often-embarrassing photos that landed in “Stars, They’re Just Like Us!” tabloid pages were the result of professional stalking. Hollywood’s paparazzi business used to look quite different.
“Having that kind of trust with people is very important to me.” “There are tons of people that I’ve built relationships with over the years and if they’re up to something or feeling extra fly that day, I’ll swing by,” says Diggs, who is contracted to photo syndication platform Shutterstock. The bicoastal paparazzo’s trademark has become a snap best perhaps described as a mediated candid: it’s not photos fit for a high-fashion editorial, nor is it furtive shots of Gisele Bündchen possibly sneaking into a plastic surgery clinic in a burka it’s street-style photography, but planned beforehand, and only for those with can afford to be meticulously styled - those who only ever hit the street to be seen. The car episode was something of an anomaly for him - usually, his photographs are the product of close relationships with A-listers, among them Rihanna, Hailey Bieber and Cardi B.
He’s been on the Hollywood scene for years. If a picture is worth a thousand words, Diggs’ output could rival that of Proust. They just happened to pull up at a red light next to me.” “There was this whole conspiracy theory that Zendaya and Tom Holland called paparazzi when they were seen kissing,” photographer Miles Diggs, who snapped the viral shots of the Spiderman actors and is often referred to by celebrities and publicists alike as “ ‘Diggzy,” tells Rolling Stone. Here, captured in broad daylight, were two famous co-stars kissing in a car. What wasn’t obvious - largely due to the surreality of social media and innate suspicion of so-called “candids” in an era of Facetune and filters - was whether they knew they were being photographed. It was clear who the people in the photos were. From the featured section of Instagram’s Explore tab, they oozed a kind of sun-dappled cool obtainable only above a certain income threshold in the state of California.
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