Tyler Shields

Tyler Shields (born April 29, 1982) is an American professional photographer in Los Angeles, California. Shields, originally from Jacksonville Florida, competed professionally as a vert skater. Among other accomplishments he was a 1999 X-Game participant, participated in the 2000 X Games and also toured with Tony Hawk in 2003. Shields began his photography career by posting pictures to MySpaceHis controversial work often involves images of violence and splattered blood. He collected blood from 20 celebrities to make a piece of art for his Life Is Not a Fairytale exhibit in Los Angeles. and also photographed Lindsay Lohan as a vampire for that exhibit. In 2010, Shields photographed actress Lindsay Lohan in studio portraits brandishing a gun. Shields also appeared to stage the "shooting" a partygoer with a gun that year at the release party for his book Collisions, as an appropriated piece of performance art en homage to the cans of Fluxus artist Piero Manzoni and in imitation of 70s Los Angeles performance artist John Duncan along with a student in the department of New Genres at UCLA in the 1990s (among others). Shields was also criticized for a photoshoot with Glee star Heather