Hiroki Kobayashi is a photographer, originally from Hiroshima, Japan, and based in Lisbon, Portugal since 2023. Kobayashi has produced varied bodies of work focusing on people and places in Brooklyn and Japan. His photographs have been published in National Geographic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and among others. While living in the U.S., he has had solo exhibitions of his work at FiveMyles Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was awarded the National Geographic Explorer Grant in 2022 and Brooklyn Arts Council Grant Program in 2010, 2011, and 2012.