{"id":367940,"date":"2025-01-03T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germany.10magazine.com\/drawing-awareness-artist-kelvin-okafor-celebrates-visible-differences\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T16:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T14:59:52","slug":"drawing-awareness-artist-kelvin-okafor-celebrates-visible-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/germany.backup10mag.indevmode.co.uk\/de\/drawing-awareness-artist-kelvin-okafor-celebrates-visible-differences\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing Awareness: Artist Kelvin Okafor Celebrates Visible Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kelvin Okafor<\/a> is all about human connection. An unmistakable talent, the artist\u2019s aptitude for photorealist portraiture is uncanny, elevated by his gift for capturing the core essence of his subjects \u2013 one pencil stroke at a time.<\/p>\n

To observe an Okafor piece is not only to see the subject\u2019s reflection staring back, but to see emotion in their eyes, stories in their wrinkles and beauty in their flaws. Upon meeting Okafor, 39, on a Zoom call one afternoon in August, I understood why he could convey these intangible qualities so well. Appearing on the call immaculately lit, carefully groomed and with a wide grin, his warmth was palpable. Overcoming the screen that divided us, it encouraged an easy and natural dialogue. Should I have been one of Okafor\u2019s subjects, telling him my story would have comfortably rolled off the tongue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Artist, Kelvin Okafor is known for his remarkable photorealistic pencil portraits. His latest project focuses on people with visible differences<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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The seed for his career was planted young. \u201cI\u2019ve always been intrigued by the details,\u201d he says, when asked about any pivotal moments that shaped his approach to hyperrealistic portraiture. \u201cPeople were my interest \u2013 specifically the small details that we have on our faces like flaws and wrinkles. What people call imperfections are perfections to me. From a young age, I\u2019ve always been fascinated with detail and precision and, because of that, [it\u2019s reflected] in the kind of art that I do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Graduating with a degree in Fine Art from Middlesex University in 2009, Okafor\u2019s longstanding interests started to form a career in 2012, when he submitted to the Catherine Petitgas Visitors\u2019 Choice Award at the National Open Art Competition and won. \u201c[After that] it was like a snowball effect,\u201d he says. He started to win awards from the likes of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and his reputation began to grow. In 2013, the BBC broadcast a short interview with Okafor, catapulting his work into the wider public eye. Like most who come across his pieces, viewers were floored by his creative prowess. \u201cI became an artist overnight,\u201d he says with a laugh. \u201cThat set everything in motion for me.\u201d In 2022 he was profiled by the BBC again for its show Extraordinary Portraits.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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from left: Shimbe Avalumun Queen, who has albinism; Model Winnie Harlow, who has vitiligo<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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What drives Okafor to create in the first place? It seems like the work of an elusive higher power. \u201cI\u2019ve been having lucid dreams ever since I was 21,\u201d he says. \u201cI can\u2019t tell the difference between that world and this. It\u2019s from my dreams where ideas come to me. For example, a person I saw in my dream who I\u2019ve never met in the physical world would have an expression on their face. Then, in a waking hour, I would see someone who has that same emotional expression I felt in my dream. That would inspire me to want to capture it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Intriguingly, this dance between reality and fantasy seems to pop up in all aspects of Okafor\u2019s work, giving it a full-bodied feeling you don\u2019t always get with other artists. His dream- doused inspirations exist in the space between the conscious and the unconscious, the imagined and the real. Once a piece is completed, this space then serves as the gallery where viewers experience the work. His graphite on paper works can take up to 500 hours to complete and their precision can leave you feeling unsure whether they are photographs or not, pulling you back into that liminal space between imagination and real life \u2013 the very place where the creative process began.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFrom the first time the general public experienced my art, it was fascinating how people would come up to me and express how it looks like a photograph,\u201d he says. \u201cI felt something I couldn\u2019t explain. It was knowing that they had some sort of emotional response they couldn\u2019t make tangible. That inspired me and made me realise it\u2019s more than the physicality, the aesthetics of pencil and paper. There\u2019s also something that emits and I think [this happens in] all forms of art when an artist is genuinely expressing themselves. In that moment, when they\u2019re creating their art, those emotions come through.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Okafor\u2019s description of how people engage with his work adds another layer of depth. His art is at the heart of a seamless cycle of expression and connection. Like a self-sustaining ecosystem, the piece is born from and shaped by emotion and ultimately experienced through that lens. \u201cThe fact that people have information and stories and visions in their own mind that we can\u2019t see [is fascinating]. It\u2019s only when they express it through art, through their body language, the way they talk and their tone [that you start to see it].\u201d Linking it back to the start of the cycle, Okafor says, \u201cthat emotional connection plays a huge part with even me feeling inspired to want to draw someone. Everyone has a story.\u201d<\/p>\n

This desire to share these stories found another purpose in 2020 when Okafor started using his talent for good by creating the series Drawing Awareness<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s mostly focused around people with visible differences, whether it\u2019s with skin conditions [that are] environmental or genetically-based \u2013 alopecia, vitiligo or burn survivors,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s focused around the aesthetics of their physical condition, [but] I want to celebrate their differences and bring about that inclusion for their stories and what they look like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, the seed for the Drawing Awareness<\/em> project was watered by an emotional, human connection. \u201cOne random day, I noticed my followers on social media were saying Winnie Harlow was following me. I obviously knew who she was, reached out and we started speaking on direct message. [I said] \u2018I would absolutely love to capture you and hear more about you\u2019 [and it went from there].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Zelda Burborough has alopecia<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Dealing with heavy backstories, the emotion that often acts as an anchor for Okafor is also the part he finds the most challenging. \u201cThe actual process of drawing those divisible differences was so inspirational, encouraging and motivating. But the emotional side was very heavy… Some of the bullying that they had to face [was terrible]. Like Winnie Harlow [being called] all different names. And Zelda Burborough [a campaigner for visible difference charity Changing Faces] with her alopecia, she lost her hair just months after her father died, and she was extremely close to him. The stress of that was what caused the alopecia to start.”<\/p>\n

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Explaining how he utilised this personal weight to make his drawings even more effective, Okafor says, \u201cI tried to get myself into a place where I could use those emotions and connect with the drawing, rather than it affecting me to the point where I [couldn\u2019t] draw. It was quite overwhelming, but that\u2019s what I made and it makes this whole series so dear and special to me. [It\u2019s the] heartful connections I\u2019ve made, not just with the subjects and their lives, but also with me and how I now see people, their reality and adversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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from left: Nikki Lilly, British TikToker, influencer and activist, who has arteriovenous malformation (AVM); <\/em>Katie Piper, English writer and activist, whose burns and scars were caused by an assault<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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The impact of Drawing Awareness<\/em> has already started to take form, with Okafor\u2019s hefty Instagram audience \u2013 he has nearly 380,000 followers \u2013 playing a key role in getting the message out. \u201cIt was heartwarming to know that people who have had alopecia, vitiligo [and other skin conditions] have been reaching out and being extremely appreciative. Drawing these people and creating an awareness and a narrative, giving them a platform to showcase and reveal what it is that they have and educate people on their on their conditions, it\u2019s been really rewarding.\u201d As the results of the project are now set to be turned into a documentary by directorial duo Deadhorses and production company OB42, the positive effect it could have is set to expand even further.<\/p>\n

After chatting to Okafor for the best part of an hour, I was left satisfied in the knowledge that he deserves his gift. Dream-bound inspirations and childhood fascinations suggest his artistic success was somewhat written in the stars, but the way he\u2019s cultivated it \u2013 and of course how incredibly hard he works on each piece \u2013 makes you grateful fate chose him. He\u2019s authentic in the pursuit of understanding his subjects and earnest in his ability to so wonderfully communicate that. Okafor\u2019s emotional investment means his work is laced with depth, friendship and joy. By transcending traditional definitions of beauty and looking deeper within with Drawing Awareness<\/em>, he creates art that is not only beautiful but meaningful, making him a powerful and necessary asset to the creative world. Aside from being a dab hand with a pencil, that\u2019s where Okafor\u2019s real power lies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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Seal, British singer, whose prominent facial scarring was caused by lupus. Michelle Brown, an NHS health care support worker, who has a cleft lip and palate.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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