Quil Lemons (b. 1997, South Philadelphia) is a New York–based artist and photographer whose work tenderly reimagines the intersections of Blackness, queerness, masculinity, and kinship. His practice is deeply rooted in personal mythology, using the camera to build worlds where softness is a form of resistance and beauty becomes a site of liberation. His images oscillate between the intimate and the iconic, drawing from familial archives, fashion fantasy, and queer futurity to forge a visual language that is at once poetic, political, and defiantly tender.

Lemons has photographed for Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, and i-D, working with GUCCI, Calvin Klein, and Marc Jacobs among others. In 2021, he became the youngest photographer to create the lead image for the cover of Vanity Fair. His work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, and Hannah Traore Gallery, offering not just images, but portals into new ways of seeing care, identity, and belonging.