Patrick Lupinski (b. 1984) is a Brooklyn-based queer photographer and advertising creative director whose photographic practice examines the construction of the male ideal through the lens of classical mythology, eroticism, and contemporary queer experience.

Described by Lupinski as “soft homoeroticism,” his portraits examine the tension between strength and vulnerability, desire and restraint. He draws on the idealized male form while allowing it to become softer and more ambiguous, questioning the cultural expectations attached to masculinity and desire.

Influenced by photographers Peter Hujar and George Platt Lynes, Lupinski combines a highly controlled visual language with an interest in the contradictions of the male body: its beauty and fragility, power and vulnerability, idealization and humanity. His work ultimately considers masculinity not as a fixed identity, but as something constructed and performed.

His work has been exhibited in New York and Dallas, including the 19th Fire Island Biennial Art Show and a solo exhibition in Dallas, Texas.