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, Lagos, Birmingham, Bradford, Hastings and Leicester. Creative Visionary of the Year 2025/26.
Aworan: African Lenses
Lightbox Gallery · LCB Depot, Leicester
Photographs and digital art by John Olalekan Durojaye - around twenty-five framed works extending the conversation begun with my Lagos solo show, and opening at the start of UK Black History Month.
- 25 September - 10 October 2026 · Free entry
- Launch night Friday 25 September, 5-10pm
- Monday to Friday, 11am - 5pm · also open Saturday 10 October
- LCB Depot, 31 Rutland Street, Leicester LE1 1RE
A student of media, of life, and of photography
I am John Olalekan Durojaye - known as John Lekan, and to many simply John Lekan Durojaye. For over twelve 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 twelve 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 StoryFrom 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
WOMAN
Liquid Serenity
Eternal Glow
Recently
Creative Visionary of the Year 2025/26
Presented by the Lord Mayor of Westminster at a ceremony attended by Grammy winner Wouter Kellerman and global media leaders.
Summer Exhibitions 2026
Iya Laje at the RBSA Summer Show (to 1 August), the Summer Exhibition 2026 at the Stables Theatre & Arts Centre (27 July - 26 September), and Sanctuary of Nature at BAFA (1-18 August).
Aworan - Solo at Atirira Gallery
A homecoming solo showcase where In Thought was acquired by a private collector - the collection's first sale.
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.
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