Obiageli Adaeze Okaro

• @adaezeokaro

Obiageli Adaeze Okaro is a self-taught photographer. Born and raised in Enugu state, Nigeria, she centers her work around portraiture, fine art, documentary imagery, and fashion photography. Obiageli’s work features black women and men in colorful, full of light portraits that are deeply infused with cultural traces of her origins. And most importantly, fine art portraits that display honest human emotions of all sorts, but especially melancholy, love and vulnerability. With her work for companies like Dove, Getty Images, Girlgaze, VSCO, Adobe, Adobe Stock, Adobe Lightroom and more, Obiageli’s work continues to showcase the beauty of Black women while aiming to dismantle barriers and stereotypes surrounding Black women, one photograph at a time.