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Monetize Your Candid Eye

In today’s world, documenting memories is everything. We want to remember places we visit, people we love, and experiences we value. As photographers, we know how challenging, and how many hundreds of hours it takes, to master capturing special moments in time. These days, the average person can easily snap photos on their smartphone, but snapping genuine moments of joy and connection is harder to come by. This is where you come in –– giving a new name to Paparazzi photography.

Where to Take Photos

By choosing tourist locations, or those with heavy foot traffic, you can offer customers Paparazzi-style photos with the kind of emotional rawness that can only occur when people are unaware they are being photographed. Whether you’re at a festival, famous landmark, or iconic street, the process is seamless. Ready to make money?

What Happens After You Take the Photos?

Once you get the shots you want, the next step is to approach your subjects in a friendly and casual way. Introduce yourself as a Paparazzi photographer and let them know that you just captured a great photo (or photos!) of them..

How Customers Can Find You

If your subjects are interested in seeing your work, you can hand them your My Paparazzi card, which will lead them to their photos and your photographer profile. Think of your profile as a digital business card where customers can contact you directly for future gigs.

What You Need to Do

Once you’re done snapping photos for the day, you’ll have 24 hours to upload them onto your profile (but we recommend uploading them even sooner) so that customers can see what you produced and, of course, buy and download their favorite shots.

How Much Can I Make?

Photos are currently listed on our website for a flat rate of $10. We only keep an administration fee of currently $1 and the rest goes to you –– because we believe in empowering independent photographers..

What’s Next?

Sign up for a My Paparazzi membership and start earning money today! $14.95/month membership fee. Cancel at any time. We prefer to pay your share of the photo revenue directly to your PayPal account on a monthly basis. The email address used for your My Paparazzi account must be the same email used for the PayPal account. Contact us for other payout options. We can’t wait to see what you produce .

How My Paparazzi was Born

Picture this: the year is 1964, and my dad and uncle are photographing guests at a fabled Catskills resort to earn money for college. (If you don’t know the lore of the Catskills in the 60s, let the movie Dirty Dancing enlighten you.) I loved hearing their stories of how they would develop the film, punch-out the subjects in the photographs and then place them into, what they called, “Peepers,” which were essentially key-chain-sized viewers. My dad and uncle got pretty skilled at candid photography, and an impressive number of guests purchased their Peepers.

I certainly got the photo-gene myself. I remember as a child being fascinated by the Diane Arbus book that was a permanent fixture of our living room coffee table. Flipping through the pages, I began to understand how powerful photography could be, and knew I wanted in. Throughout my career, I’ve been on both sides of the camera. From walking the Hollywood Red Carpet to co-founding a global fashion brand, I’ve been the subject and the artist. But if you ask me what I think is the most exciting kind of photography I would say (you guessed it) paparazzi

The beauty of candid photography is that it cannot be staged. It cannot be replicated, no matter how hard you try. It is raw and real. Typically paparazzi photography is very celebrity-centric and the average person doesn’t often get to experience the pleasure of owning a photo of themselves which captures an essence of who they are.

Adam Jacobs Founder and CEO

Thus, My Paparazzi was born. I created this platform with two main goals in mind:

To empower, and create more business opportunities, for photographers

To create a positive paparazzi experience and provide stunning photography for everyone.

It is my hope that all photographers, no matter what skill level, will feel that they can be part of the My Paparazzi family.