So there was the time he crossed paths with a pre-007 Pierce Brosnan on a Croatia movie set. He convinced a hydrophobic Tina Turner to pose in the middle of her infinity pool. He was also there the moment David Lee Roth and the Van Halen brothers reunited in 2006 for the first time since disbanding after their classic 1984 album.
Some photographers have shot a celebrity or three and called it a people career. Since age 18, Richard McLaren has been capturing a galaxy’s worth of stars, across four generations; including The Rolling Stones, Halle Berry, Jennifer Lopez, Pamela Anderson, Rachel Weisz, Orlando Bloom, and late actors Patrick Swayze and Heath Ledger… and a clutch of his iconic images have traveled worldwide and are stuck in the public’s collective memory.