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Moscow welcomes 'king of paparazzi'

An exhibition of work by the Italian photographer Rino Barillarri has opened in Moscow. For some, Barillari is the 'conscience of the capital', who reveals the contradictions of today's society, while to most of the world he is known as 'king of the papar In one Italian dialect 'paparazzo' means 'buzz of the mosquito'. As legend has it, it was the Italian film director Federico Fellini who called Rino Barillarri a paparazzo after the photojournalist took a picture of Fellini in the company of an actress he was seeing. The story also has it that it was none other than Barillari who later became a prototype for a character in Fellini's famous movie 'La Dolce Vita'. Barillari proudly boasts a list of records: he has 76 cameras smashed, 11 ribs broken and has been to the emergency room 162 times. His unfailing motto still remains the same as it was 50 years ago 'war is war'. "My entire life is a hunt, a chase, a waiting game. Looking for something and finding it. That's what gets my adrenalin pumping," says the king of paparazzi. He started in the fifties with Brigitte Bardo, Alfred Hitchcock and Marcello Mastroianni. The latest generation of heroes has featured Brad Pitt, Demi Moore and Victoria Beckham At Barillari's exhibition in Moscow the paparazzi were itching to snap the legendary signor paparazzo, while Russian stars were craving to be photographed by him. The open-air exhibition takes place in Stoleshnikov Street in the heart of Moscow, and runs till October 10.