Shunji Dodo

[1] He graduated in fine arts from Kyushu Sangyo University in 1970,[1] and started teaching at Tōkyō Shashin Senmon Gakkō (now Visual Arts College Tokyo).

[2] Two years later he started work as a teacher of photography at Ōsaka Shashin Senmon Gakkō; in 1998 he was made head of the school, by that time renamed Visual Arts College Osaka.

[1] Dodo was present when the film director Naomi Kawase, who had first been a student of his[3][4] and was later teaching at Visual Arts Senmon Gakkō, had her first baby on 24 April 2004, in Nara.

Dodo's book of large-format black-and-white photographs A Radiant Land: Kii Peninsula won the PSJ's Annual Award for 1995; his later collection of large-format colour photographs of the peninsula, A Radiant Land with Thousands of Years, was exhibited in Nara City Museum of Photography in 2000.

[5] Dodo has said that his major influences were Shōmei Tōmatsu, especially his Ryūkyū series "Pencil of the Sun", and Yutaka Takanashi, for the way in which Takanashi's concentration on Tokyo showed Dodo his own possibilities in Osaka.