
Resident Artists
Artober is proud to showcase our Resident Artists, whose vibrant and inspiring works have enriched venues across Tokyo. This page celebrates their ongoing partnership with Artedly, highlighting their unique styles and visions that captivate audiences. Individual prints from each artist will be on display, reflecting their contributions to the city's cultural tapestry.

Kangarui
Rui Yamashita is the artist behind Kangarui. She was born in Japan, raised in Kenya and her life experiences are reflected in each of her designs. A quirky fusion style, filled with colour and often with animals found in East Africa, she wishes to spread her safari love around the world.
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Joe Allam
Incessantly driven to live the creative travel lifestyle, Joe is a creator specializing in travel photography and filmmaking. With a rapidly growing audience, primarily on YouTube, he shares the journeys behind his photos with an aim to inspire others to see the world through creative eyes.
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Lisa Knight
Lisa Knight is a photographer from Australia currently living in Japan. After burning out in her legal career, she quit her job, sold everything and moved to Japan with absolutely no life plan. After teaching children for two years, she is now a full-time photographer and videographer for the longest-running English language lifestyle magazine in Tokyo. While she shoots a variety of photo styles, from portraits to architecture, she is most at home surrounded by flowers and capturing the beauty of the natural world around her.
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JP OBADINA
JP is a freelance photographer based in Tokyo. Rather than focus on one particular photographic style, he unadvisedly attempts a wide number of things, probably due to some form of undiagnosed idiocy. He enjoys street and landscape photography, and simple portraiture. On Instagram he goes by @jibesy, a nickname he picked up at school, the result of a misspelling of his actual name on a list of new year 7 students that was posted on the wall by the playground.
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Go Suzuki
A photographer who is passionate about, and specializes in, photos of mountains over 2,500m in height. Go likes to capture seas of clouds ('Unkai' in Japanese), the Milky Way and fascinating mountain ridges both domestically and internationally. His background is in street dancing and he tries to stick to the HipHop attitude of "Originality" when discovering his own unique view/shooting points.
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Elora Pautrat
Elora grew up in the French Alps, a place that she says really shaped her interest in everything that surrounds her, especially her love for art and colors. Influenced by Ghibli films, Ukiyo-E, impressionism, City Pop and color therapy, Elora likes to create illustrations inspired by Japanese woodblock prints with a modern twist and a soothing color palette.
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John Seru
'Seru', as he is known to anyone that's met him, enjoys creating images that spark imagination, making viewers wonder what led to the moment depicted and what happens next. He sees his work as 'slices' of a larger, unwritten story, inviting the audience to complete the narrative with their own experiences and emotions, allowing each viewer to interpret the image differently.
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Ben Cooke
As a freelance writer, filmmaker and photographer based in Tokyo, Ben has found Japan to be an endless source of creative inspiration since moving there from Australia in an effort to escape his corporate career. With love for telling stories in both written and visual mediums, he aims to capture scenes that can instil this same inspiration in others.
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