Visual Artist · Photographer · Storyteller
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.
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.
Read My Full StoryComposed 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.
Presented by the Lord Mayor of Westminster at a ceremony attended by Grammy winner Wouter Kellerman and global media leaders.
Iya Laje at the RBSA Summer Show (18 June – 1 August), followed by Sanctuary of Nature at the BAFA exhibition (1 – 18 August).
A homecoming solo showcase where In Thought was acquired by a private collector — the collection's first sale.
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.
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