Tyler Shields

Tyler Shields is an American professional photographer in Los Angeles, California. Shields began his photography by posting pictures to MySpace. His work often involves splattered blood. He is known for collecting blood from 20 celebrities to make a piece of art for his Life Is Not a Fairytale exhibit in Los Angeles. He also has photographed Lindsay Lohan as a vampire for that exhibit. Shields has been called Hollywood's "favorite photographer" by the Daily Mail and 'famed' by Celebrity Buzz. 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 Morris with a bruised eye as making light of abusive treatment of women. Shields later apologized after receiving death threats saying "if you are anti-domestic