Todd Anthony Tyler
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| Born | Sudbury, Ontario |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | Trent University |
| Known for | Photography, TV Host. |
| Spouse(s) | Karina Smith |
| Website | http://toddanthonytyler.com/ |
Todd Anthony Tyler is a Canadian reality television judge, fashion photographer and former model. He is best known for his role as first season resident photographer and judge of Asia's Next Top Model. Currently he is the resident photographer and judge of TV show Fit for Fashion. Tyler is listed as "being the 4th top fashion photographer in the world" by the website Top Teny.
Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Tyler is the son of Judy Smith. He has one sister and graduated from Trent University with a BSc in Biology and related studies in art history, having also done one semester at Simon Fraser University. He is 75% French and 25% British by birth and was influenced by the art direction of Star Wars at an early age.
Fitness was an early hobby with him being on the track team at 8 years old. His specialties were 100 meter, 200 meter, 400 meter and triple jump. He was on the basketball team, volleyball team, gymnastics throughout high school. Tyler became interested in maximizing his performance through proper nutrition and weight training. When he was young, he lived on a farm until he was 16. Spending the time working on the farm developed his physique. When his parents divorced his step father had a gym, it was then he began a lifelong commitment to weight training.
Tyler started as an amateur photographer early in life, primarily shooting nature and landscape images, when his mother gave him a 110 film cartridge camera.
Tyler started his professional modelling career modelling in Milan, Italy with model agency Model Plan in 1994. He carried on modelling internationally until 2003 when he switched to the other side of the camera and took up professional fashion photography which has been his main career ever since.
He is self-taught having never attended photography school, his first professional position was as a shoot photographer for Singapore-based catalog magazine. He went on to build a client roster that includes Vogue China, Elle Singapore, Harper's Bazaar China, L'Officiel, GQ China, Indochino, Ports 1961, Nike Numero, Stella McCartney and others. Whilst he has worked all over the world, the focus of his work is Asia, having opened his studio "Todd Anthony Tyler Photography" in Shanghai, China in 2003.
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