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This is NOT a paparazzi photo. I took this picture at an event to which the Press was invited. I was working for Reuters at the time, standing behind metal barriers in a Press pen set up by the NYPD. I basically pressed the shutter button from the moment her car door opened and let the camera fire off its 10 frames per second until she had passed me bye. It was all planned ahead. She wanted us there to advertise the charity the event was sponsored for. I was, by the way, using a telephoto lens and was at some distance from her.

Diana died about 3 months later if I recall correctly.

The Daily News ran this image on their back page about 3 days after she died. The photo editor who choose to use this photo, I have been told, was fired the next day. Everyone thought the image was inappropriate to use at the time. Too much leg. I thought its use was tacky myself, but that was not something I had control over. The image rights belonged (and still belong) to Reuters.

I wonder if now, decades later, this image is still inappropriate?

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This is NOT a paparazzi photo. I took this picture at an event to which the Press was invited. I was working for Reuters at the time, standing behind metal barriers in a Press pen set up by the NYPD. I basically pressed the shutter button from the moment her car door opened and let the camera fire off its 10 frames per second until she had passed me bye. It was all planned ahead. She wanted us there to advertise the charity the event was sponsored for. I was, by the way, using a telephoto lens and was at some distance from her.<br /> <br /> Diana died about 3 months later if I recall correctly.<br /> <br /> The Daily News ran this image on their back page about 3 days after she died. The photo editor who choose to use this photo, I have been told, was fired the next day. Everyone thought the image was inappropriate to use at the time. Too much leg. I thought its use was tacky myself, but that was not something I had control over. The image rights belonged (and still belong) to Reuters.<br /> <br /> I wonder if now, decades later, this image is still inappropriate?