Week 8 EOC: Are All Celebrities Fair Game?

Where do you drive the line in photographing a celebrity, this is a question that all photographers will have to answer for themselves at some point in their careers. This doesn't only apply to strictly celebrities but political or public individuals as well. Sometimes this applies to street photographers or photojournalists as well. The bottom line is simple if anyone considers themselves to be a photographer they will have to decide where the line is that they won't cross in trying to capture the perfect image or story.
For me I have often wondered where I would draw that line. I do not particularly care for some of the paparazzi style photography that crosses the line taking photos of someone in their own private property or in their own home through there window is definitely crossing the line to me. If a celebrity were to be out in public I think that they could be considered fair game, yet stalking them or following them for miles on end is to me crossing the line as well. I think back to the tragedy of Princess Diana and how the paparazzi crossed more than a few lines that night. To me there is not a story or photograph of a person no matter who they are that could be justified in a situation like that one. I have often wondered how different the world would be if the respect that we all had towards one another was still present in today’s world. Photography has changed and continues changing each and every day and year, the only thing we can do as photographers is change with the time while not changing our own moral character. If we were to do this the question of fair game would take on a whole other point of view or persceptive.