Osborne Macharia

In 2018, he was chosen to be on the judging team at the Art Director's Club of New York Awards.

In 2018, Macharia was commissioned to promote the film Black Panther by designing and creating a collection of Afrofuturistic inspired photographs This project was titled "Ilgelunot", which means the "The Chosen Ones" in Maasai.

In 2018, Macharia was selected as one of "Five Creative Revolutionaries" of African art by One Source Live. In a creative showcase of their work, each artist selected depicted a different Afrofuturistic alterego. Macharia's was "The Eye" a virtuoso who can record and play back what he sees with a digital eye. This is a metaphor for African people seeing their own culture and heritage as beautiful.

In 2017, he spoke at the Design Indaba Conference.

When describing his Afrofuturistic work, Macharia stated that "it is a post-colonial narrative about the continents, where you embrace history, present culture, and future aspirations of people of color through art... music... fashion – and just tell a different narrative about the continent."

His path to photography began through a failure. In 2010 he was still studying for his Bachelors in Architecture. Then he failed his last unit in his fourth year of studying to gain a degree in architecture. In his year long gap, he found the work of New York-based photographer Joey L.

Osborne Macharia (born 11 April 1986 in Nairobi) is a self-taught Kenyan commercial photographer and digital artist whose work focuses on themes of Afrofuturism in culture, identity, and fictional narratives. He has been called "a master at creating alternate black universes."