paparazzo vs photographer

paparazzo and photographer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
paparazzo	Yes	No	No	No
photographer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, photographer is a hypernym of paparazzo; that is, photographer is a word with a broader meaning than paparazzo:

paparazzo: a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines
photographer: someone who takes photographs professionally

Other hypernyms of paparazzo include lensman.

paparazzo (noun)	photographer (noun)
a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines	someone who takes photographs professionally