Caution To The Wind
This is a great time of year because practically everyone’s anticipating a fun break from work or just returned from one. For me, Spring Break marked the arrival of two long awaited events: getting...
View ArticleCool Summer in Santa Monica
Wow, it’s mid Summer already. It’s been a packed Spring and Summer. Did you know “May is International Professional Photographers Month”? Photography is such a part of our lives that we can take it...
View ArticleAvatars, The Future, and Big Data: My Largest Group Shot Ever, Sort of…
It’s not every day that you become a part of history. Which is exactly what happened when Rick Smolan – creator of the epic series Day in the Life of America – asked me to shoot his greatest content to...
View ArticleMy Trip to Lagos, Nigeria
I knew there would be culture shock going from Santa Monica, California to Lagos, Nigeria, but I never expected it to be so profound. Biggest shocker? Lagos definitely isn’t some little African city...
View ArticleHarper’s Bazaar Brazil
When my parents started dating, my mother aspired to be a Jazz singer; my grandfather owned a Jazz record store in Harlem. (She let that dream go for marriage and the prospect of having children. I...
View ArticleThe Urban Landscape Images
“Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult – the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.” – Edgar Degas Everyone thinks that being a photographer is a glamorous life. In fact, it’s often lonely on...
View ArticleUrban Landscape Project at Photo LA
Schoeler Editions, the Brazilian Publisher of Fine Art Portfolios, will have its first booth ever at Photo LA to celebrate the U.S. release of Michael Grecco’s Urban Landscape Portfolio. The portfolio...
View ArticlePatrick Dempsey, a.k.a. “McDreamy”
I am blessed. Really. I have been able to do the thing I love – image making – my entire adult life. I am not only blessed because I have been able to do it, but because as I have grown, it has been...
View ArticleShowing at the Photo Independent Art Fair April 25th – 27th
Hi All, So I decided to take a booth at the upstart art fair, Photo Independent, across from Paris Photo this weekend, April 25th through the 27th. I will be showing a body of personal work, The Urban...
View ArticleMy Day with World Champion Joe Torre!
My family is Italian (my father’s parents were born in Italy), but my mom’s parents grew up in New York City. In fact, my maternal grandparents worked in Harlem and lived in the Bronx, in the shadow...
View ArticleWhat I did on my Summer Vacation, an Instagram Story
One of my favorite things to do in the world is to take my daughter, Sophia, on vacation with me. It’s our ‘father-daughter’ thing to do and every year we go to Europe on a food excursion. You see, I...
View ArticleMy Dream…for a Brilliant Campaign
One of my favorite things to do while traveling is to record my world using Instagram. Sometimes these images are shot on my Panasonic GH4 and wified to the phone; sometimes I just use my phone. Taking...
View ArticleCreating a Spot for Panasonic, “Forever Young”
I first fell in love with photography as a kid in summer camp; the magic of watching a print develop in a tray in the dark totally captivated me. Having the bug, a few years later I started poring over...
View ArticleThe Art of Creating Living Photography™
As someone who both appreciates and creates still photography and motion footage, I’ve spent a great deal of time thinking of the best ways they might come together. After all, we live in a world of...
View ArticleWhen the Magic Happens – with Virtuoso Violinist Lindsey Stirling
As a portrait shooter sometimes you are only as good as your subject. What I mean by that is you can light and create the most amazing conceptual scenario, but if your subject is not into it, then it...
View ArticleMichael Grecco Shoots Live Cinemagraphs For 67th Annual Emmy Awards
One of the favorite parts of my job is the creative problem solving that has to happen for any photoshoot. Problem solving is something I am known for and I love it. I was asked by Flixel Studios to...
View ArticleMichael Grecco and Flixel Studios Make Advertising History
Michael Grecco Shoots First Ever Cinemagraph as a Broadcast Ad for Pizza Hut In a world of oversaturation, overstimulation, and overexposure, the cinemagraph is what the advertising world needed; a...
View ArticleWill Smith Sports Illustrated Cover Shoot for ‘Concussion’ feature film
As creatives, most of us love what we do. We love the small jobs, the medium jobs, but we especially love the really big jobs. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll do a smaller job any day of the week, but a...
View ArticlePresenting a New Lighting Portfolio with the Clare Agency
You might know that I love light and lighting. Having written two lighting books and having been the subject of a PDN (Photo District News) Lighting Master series several years ago, I continue to be...
View ArticleJoin Michael Grecco for the Artist Reception at the Leica Gallery
Dear Friends, Family and Clients, I am pleased to announce the only one-person show at the Leica Gallery in Los Angeles to exhibit both my new body of work, After the Audition, and the continuation of...
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