A paparazzi photographer chasing singer Monica has been hit by a taxi in New York City. The accident occurred on Wednesday afternoon as the R&B star left a magazine shoot. The photographer was hurt, but he got the shots he craved when Monica ran over to check if he was ok and posed as he continued to snap away.

Monica’s representative tells PageSix.com, “We had just left a shoot for the teen magazines to promote Monica’s new album, ’The Makings Of Me.’ We were on Eighth Avenue, by 39th Street, and the photographer was in the street by Monica’s SUV when he stepped too far out in the street and was hit.”

The guy should have pretended he was hurt worse, and maybe he could have gotten some mouth-to-mouth, but hopefully by Monica, and not her bodyguard.