The South Philadelphia-born, Brooklyn-based photographer has developed a robust visible language that unspools notions of masculinity, uplifts Black queer identification, and attracts on themes of group and belonging. 2017’s Glitterboy noticed Lemons sprinkle Black males with glitter in a surprising collection that confronted stereotype with magnificence, whereas his 2018 venture Purple meditated on the Black household portrait. In 2021, he turned the youngest photographer to create the lead picture for the duvet of Vainness Honest. He has shot Spike Lee, Billie Eilish, Zendaya, and extra. In 2023, not content material with simply lensing vogue, Lemons launched a capsule assortment with Sky Excessive Farm Workwear titled Farm Boys Do It Higher. Lemons’s vogue images is each a portal and a mirror, that revels in vogue fantasies, and confronts who will get to dwell these desires.
Nadia Lee Cohen
Photograph: Nadia Lee Cohen
Cinematic and achingly glamorous, Nadia Lee Cohen has crafted an era-defining visible dialogue that has enraptured everybody from Kim Kardashian to Saint Laurent. Her work prods at notions of standard magnificence along with her uncanny pictures, creating fictionalized, fever-dreamy personas and tableaux. The Essex-born photographer is deeply impressed by nostalgic British and American cinema, in addition to surprising objects and memorabilia, like identify tags or drive-thrus. In addition to the aforementioned Kardashian, she’s photographed Rihanna, Lana Del Rey, Pamela Anderson, and Sophia Loren, and shot campaigns for Balenciaga, Gucci, and others. Her e book Ladies is a new-era cult traditional.
Jamie Hawkesworth
Photographed by Jamie Hawkesworth, Vogue, August 2018
