Clifton Mooney
b. 1986 (Texas, USA) is a Brooklyn-based photographer whose work merges raw intimacy with deliberate restraint. Entirely self-taught, Mooney came to photography through instinct rather than formal training—shaped instead by years spent working as a nurse, a profession that sharpened his sensitivity to both the body and the unseen emotional undercurrents of a moment.
His photographs have appeared in Vogue, V Magazine, Interview, and Homme, while his work has been profiled in The New York Times and Out Magazine. With a visual language rooted in stillness, grit, and vulnerability, Mooney has exhibited in both New York City and London.
Whether working in Polaroid or digital, Mooney’s images reject gloss in favor of something more elemental: the quiet assertion that beauty often arrives unannounced, and art does not ask permission.