Visual Artist · Photographer · Storyteller

John Lekan

Human beauty, captured one frame at a time. Award-winning fine-art photography exploring identity, resilience and the quiet poetry of everyday life — exhibited in London and Lagos. Creative Visionary of the Year 2025/26.

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John Lekan seated portrait in black attire and fedora
Aworan — “Image”

A student of media, of life, and of photography

I am John Olalekan Durojaye — known as John Lekan. For over nine years I have travelled the world with a camera, documenting the diverse beauty found in humanity and the remarkable things we have made as a species.

“The golden rule in the arts is that all rules are meant to be broken — and I am on the way to breaking them all.”

Aworan, my signature collection, gathers seven years of composed and real-life art: images as timeless as nature itself, made to transfer you into stillness when you look at them.

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Years of Practice
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Years of Aworan
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Gallery Exhibitions
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Major Awards
Selected Works

From the Aworan Collection

Composed and real-life art telling the story of my travels and the people I have met along the way. Click any piece to view it up close.

Ascension — dark figures beneath a single beam of light
Composed Art

Ascension

WOMAN — silhouette with beaded accessories
Portraiture

WOMAN

Liquid Serenity — monochrome portrait with cascading liquid
Composed Art

Liquid Serenity

Eternal Glow — the Eiffel Tower at night
Travel

Eternal Glow

News & Exhibitions

Recently

Award

Creative Visionary of the Year 2025/26

Global Reputation Forum · London · April 2026

Presented by the Lord Mayor of Westminster at a ceremony attended by Grammy winner Wouter Kellerman and global media leaders.

Now Showing

Summer Exhibitions 2026

RBSA Summer Show & BAFA · UK

Iya Laje at the RBSA Summer Show (18 June – 1 August), followed by Sanctuary of Nature at the BAFA exhibition (1 – 18 August).

Exhibition

Aworan — Solo at Atirera Gallery

Lagos, Nigeria · 2025

A homecoming solo showcase where In Thought was acquired by a private collector — the collection's first sale.

Commissions · Weddings · Lifestyle

Looking for the photographer, not the artist?

Alongside my fine-art practice, I run Camera Boss — my wedding and lifestyle photography studio serving the UK and Nigeria. Testimonials, pricing, galleries and bookings all live there.

Visit CameraBoss.co.uk ↗