Harley Moroney is a creative director, producer, graphic designer, photographer, visual artist and Studio Executive at Archer Studio.
Since 2016, Harley has been a visual storyteller at Archer Magazine, shaping visual narratives that center queer perspectives. She collaborates on editorial and social impact projects, using photography as a means of amplifying underrepresented voices, and eventually moving into creative direction for the print magazine, social media channels, website and branding.
Harley is now lead producer on Archer Studio, and is passionate about leading change in the creative space, spotlighting marginalised cast and crew, mentoring emerging artists, and promoting inclusion, respect and celebration of diversity across all her client work. Harley's studio production has brought to life concepts and campaigns for Sniffies, QT Hotels, Aesop, and more. She founded Queer Fashion Files, an underground, DIY-inspired editorial series for Archer Magazine that spotlights queer style as a form of resistance.
Harley's main ethos is to continually foster connection across marginalised communities through her broad creative networks, and creates safe spaces for people to express themselves with authenticity, and be paid and respected for it.
Artists, photographed where they actually live.
I am obsessed with photographing artists at home.
The studio is where the work gets made. Home is where the person actually lives. It is the unguarded version: the things on the walls, the half-finished cup, the way someone sits when no one is performing. That is what I am after.
Letting someone into your space is an act of trust, and I do not take it lightly. These shoots are slow. We talk, we hang out, and the camera comes out when it feels right. What comes back is the real person, not the public one.
At Home is an ongoing series. Same idea every time: a maker, their space, and the small details that say more than any caption could.
Caught on the street. High flash, real fits, real people.
Loud, joyful and unapologetic. A wall of people living in full colour.
I started Queer Fashion Files because I wanted a space where queer creatives could be seen on their own terms. Too much fashion coverage flattens us into trends or treats inclusion as a marketing line. I wanted the opposite: real stories, real practice, real people.
Queer Fashion Files is an editorial series I created for Archer Magazine that spotlights queer and allied designers, artists, photographers, trendsetters and style icons. It treats fashion as identity, lineage, politics, craft and survival, never as product PR. Every feature is built around an artist in community who deserves a bigger platform, and I research and reach out to each one personally.
It is also about being a resource for young people. So many of the creatives I feature have built real careers without following a traditional route, and I want queer youth to see that. To see that success can look like a hundred different things, and that the path you carve yourself is just as valid as the one you were told to take.
It is about giving these voices something lasting. Each feature sits permanently on the site, surfacing through search and discovery long after the hype cycle moves on, so the people I platform keep being found.
Apr '26Slam RossSLAMROSS1000 / streetwear / artist
Feb '26Danielle FitzgeraldVenus 8 / photographer
Feb '26Halle RobbeGirls Carrying Shit / pinky mag / NYC
Jan '26Sophie KietzmannPhotographer / NYC
Jan '26Kel RakowskiSocial media entrepreneur / NYC
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