“I had Carmen Electra actually wanting to take off her clothes for a shoot for Entertainment Weekly and her publicist came in yelling no, no, no, no, no,” laughs Michael Grecco, one of the world’s leading celebrity portrait photographers. “When you’re working with talent there are certain rules and one is that the talent gets the final say of what you can and can’t do. Or in this case, the publicist!”
Michael Grecco began his career in Boston where he spent 13 years working as a photojournalist. But after getting too close to the action one time and finding himself face down while a haze of bullets screamed above, he decided to change direction. An offer from People magazine to move to Los Angeles was his ticket out.