Derive: Wandering Under The Neon Lights Of Tokyo

I am Cody Ellingham, a designer and art director based in Tokyo, Japan.

I first came to Tokyo in 2012. From the very beginning the city inspired me. I wandered through the urban landscape and neon fantasies of the world’s first cyberpunk city; A metropolis of technological marvel and tradition, a forest of powerlines hanging over an ancient shrine, a lonely alley illuminated by a million burning lights.

To DERIVE is to drift through the world, to see the future. I use reflection and unique perspectives to explore the city.

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Derive: Wandering Under The Neon Lights Of Tokyo

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Cody Ellingham

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Photographer Cody Ellingham set out to live a different kind of life. Inspired by wandering and story-telling, Cody began a journey that would take him from the countryside of New Zealand on an odyssey to photograph the changing face of the world’s megacities from Tokyo to Shanghai and beyond in his series of Blade Runner-inspired neon cityscapes called DERIVE.