I'm an American, a punk, liberal, stripper, drag queen, black and white, I'm a young girl. I'm a photographer. I am antiracist The American skin magazine is a documentary, art, diary, ezine fight for rights, anti-ignorance statement. I'm a punk rock girl. I am Tyler Ondine. I love men. I despise MTV. I lived on the streets. I am an American. Magazine for art, for freedom of thought for the fight of individuality. I'm a freak. I surround myself with freaks. I'm a woman photographer. I'm disgusted by Fred Durst. I make art. I make fine art. I make dirty art. I make documentary art. I sell posters, stickers, T-shirts. I am making a magazine - anything to spread this revolution of freaks and streets to every corner of America and the world. I am Tyler Ondine. Freedom, the right to choose, to exist to different. I go out all night. I'm opinionated as hell. I'm hard to keep in one place. I'm the girl that wasn't prom queen. I live in Los Angeles, new York, San Francisco, Seattle, mobile - Alabama, Chicago, Atlanta. I went to high school.
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As well as Journals, Short Stories, political events, fights for freedom, individuality and self-expression.

A young girl who roams the American Streets seeking out the Freak Nation. People who live their lives differently, who don't fear individuality. Always searching for people who think for themselves, who challenge the ideology of all mainstream standards.

Through photographic essays, short films, and writing Tyler attempts to show the world these people exist. To show the beauty of each person's life. To show an expression, emotion, impact.

Currently Tyler is working on her latest film, "Roxy Motel". Scheduled for an October release.

This month Tyler is being featured in Mosquito Magazine, U.K.

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I like PJ Harvey and CRASS and marilyn manson. I don't have any tattoos. I traded a boy some pizzas to get my septum pierced. I've been offered money for sex. I watch a lot of TV. I find people. Then I watch them. I see what is different about them, then I see what is the same. I travel the American roads. My adventure begins on the offramp. As a kid all I knew were movies and what my parents, teachers and friends told me, about sex - life - people - beliefs - politics - religion - love - right and wrong - girls and boys. One day I realized they might not be right about everything, I thought maybe I should learn and think for myself. I broke out of glass house and hit the road. People all along the way have taught me. What I think is my own. What I share is the chance to think for yourself. To see these people, these places, these situations. Maybe things will be different for you, maybe they won't, but you still saw. I started this when I was a sixteen year old girl. I took my camera and an Ani Difranco tape and set about to change the world. . .I show the world I encounter through film. My photography allows me to take you along. In this day and age where high priced fashion ads masquerade as art the truth has become very blurred. I don't know who is real and who is a model. It seems like people are more fake now then ever. How is young person supposed to navigate through all this? I pick subjects as I encounter them, my first project is The American Stripper. I documented a strip club in the Tenderloin of San Francisco. Just off Market street, I wandered in to building with a black curtain for a door and a sign on the outside that stated payment upfront for entry. I spent day and night with the women of this strip club for 6 months. Black strippers, white strippers, young strippers, old strippers, Asian strippers, thin strippers, fat strippers, smart strippers, totally nude strippers, topless strippers, lap dance strippers. I shoot hundreds of rolls of film, each negative showed one more side of their personality, one more moment that made up their lives. Agree or disagree with their lifestyle, just make an informed decision. Girls who see this who are going to become strippers, as a surprising large number of you will, look at these photographs, they don't look like a Hollywood movie, the women don't look like stars or airbrushed Barbie dolls, the man with the money doesn't look or act like Brad Pitt or Richard Gere might in their leading roles. Look at the expressions on these women's faces, try to see the truth and choose from your heart and educated mind, not a plastic fantasy that Demi Moore got paid 12 million dollars to show her tits in. Be empowered, be informed. Travel the world and see what you find. I got in the car one day and ended up in Mobile Alabama where I thought maybe I would see what was up with the south - you always hear such interesting tales. . . I somehow came across a drag queen club in downtown Mobile. I was surprised, my stereotyped brainwashing lead me to believe they wouldn't have allowed such a thing down south, I thought they would protesting and lynching all the way. I was wrong - it was quite the hot spot, in fact, these performers were renowned and some of the best in America. I stared a lot, some of them seem like they must be women from birth - I was convinced until they took their pants off. It is so interesting to see the process of becoming a woman. The colors, the smell, the clothes, makeup, and time. I think I learned more about womanhood from these men then I ever did from my mother. I have seen so many things, things I want to show the world if they would just take the time to look. I will write more later - go inside go see what is I'm talking about. If it gets you going - then right on. Spread the word, join in - this is our America - ONe Nation United Under A Freak Flag.
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