Tyler Shields is the photographer who regularly does incredibly sketchy photoshoots with C-list female celebrities. He’s known for his p0rn-y suicide-themed work with Lindsay Lohan, and he recently did a domestic-violence tinged shoot with Heather Morris of Glee posing with an iron and a black eye that got him in trouble with advocacy groups. He later defended himself, saying that the theme for the shoot was “busted up Barbie” and did not mean to glamorize abuse.

So here’s a shoot that Tyler did with Mischa Barton chewing on raw meat. It’s disturbing and seems just a step away from showing abuse, particularly the one picture where Tyler is grabbing her neck hard and shoving the meat on her face. Tyler says the inspiration came from seeing Mischa eat a burger. I guess if she was a vegetarian he’d smoosh some bread over her eye and try to smother her with it.

Mischa Barton apparently likes to play with her food.

In a new series of photos by sometimes controversial photographer Tyler Shields, the O.C. starlet is shown biting into slabs of—get this!—raw meat.

Yeah, we also wanted to barf.

Anyhoo, what’s the deal with Barton’s carnivorous cravings?

Tyler Shields tells us he came up with the idea for the pics after having lunch with Barton at the West Coast burger chain, In-N-Out.

“I’m watching her eat this hamburger, and all I could think about was just meat all over her face,” he said.

Cut to a couple of days later when Barton arrives for the shoot. “I was like, ‘By the way, I bought $65 of meat and I want you to eat it raw and put it on your face,'” Shields said. “And she was like, ‘OK!'”

Even so, Shields says Barton was a little hesitant to chomp on the raw stuff right away, but then “like two minutes later, she’s literally tearing this s–t apart. Just f—king tearing into it.”

Barton joins a laundry list of celebs who have worked with Shields, including Lindsay Lohan, Emma Roberts, Heather Morris and Dianna Agron.

The Barton photos are currently being shown in the window of the Imitate Modern gallery in London as a preview for Shields and Maximilian Wiedemann’s new art exhibit opening Wednesday.

[From E! Online]

I feel wholly unqualified to give any kind of social commentary on this photoshoot. I’ll just say that it bothered me, that it’s stupid and that Mischa doesn’t deserve to be posed like that. I hope that this hack stops getting willing models at some point.