Kodjo was best known for his photographs taken in Abidjan during the 1970s, following the Ivory Coast's independence from France.
[2] Kodjo was born in 1939, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast; his mother was Ghanaian and his father was Ivorian.
He later moved to France, where he worked as a correspondent for Fraternité-Matin, an Ivorian publication.
[3][4][1] During this time he was one of the only Black photographers to document the May 1968 student protests in Paris.
[3][5][1] He founded a media agency, and created fictional photographic works such as Photo-romans for the magazine Ivoire Dimanche.