Born in Jacksonville, Florida and now recognized as "Hollywood's favorite photographer", L.A. based contemporary artist and filmmaker Tyler Shields' evolution from the "bad boy of photography" with his controversial blood-stained photographic series featuring Lindsay Lohan to the more subtle color-explosive poesy of his Chromatic series. Shield's art captures the emergence of an artist and his medium into a more mature overture and output.
Shield's technical brilliance as a photographer has much more to do with the shift in focus from the fragilityof the "celebrity photographer" to the output of the contemporary art medium. Most of the talented people who work with him include actors who are serious about their profession, but are not celebrities. People will go to him to make art rather than celebrity photography.