is a Japanese photographer of the Kii Peninsula, Osaka, and other subjects.

Life and career Dodo was born in Osaka in 1947.Potted biography for the Nara International Film Festival, 2010. Accessed 2010-08-24. (An English-language version is hard to understand.) He graduated in fine arts from Kyushu Sangyo University in 1970, and started teaching at Tōkyō Shashin Senmon Gakkō (now Visual Arts College Tokyo).Biography, Osaka, p. 186. 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.

Dodo was present when the film director Naomi Kawase, who had first been a student of hisDescription of the book Haha, Match & Co. Accessed 2010-08-24.As stated by the continuity voice in a program about Dodo broadcast on MBS on 21 May 2010. (Transcription, accessed 2010-08-25.) and was later teaching at Visual Arts Senmon Gakkō, had her first baby on 24 April 2004, in Nara. This was filmed as Tarachime () and Dodo photographed the event; the photographs were exhibited in Nara, Tokyo, and Locarno, and published as Haha ().

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. The latter work also won him the Ina Nobuo Award in 1999.Ina Nobuo Award page for 1999. Nikon. Accessed 2010-08-24.

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.Interview with Dodo, Faces of Humanity 93/94, pp. 166–69. Among the photographers he admires are Robert Frank and William Klein.

Awards Ina Nobuo Award, 1999. Hidano Kazuemon Award (Higashikawa Awards), 2011.Exhibition notice, Higashikawa Photo Festival. Accessed 2012-05-19.

Exhibitions by Dodo

1978 "Ōsaka, Tennōji". Nikon Salon (Ginza, Osaka)."Shunji Dodo / Naomi Kawase: ". Gallery Out of Place. Accessed 2010-08-24. 1985 "Shinsekai: Mukashi mo ima mo". Nikon Salon (Ginza, Osaka). 1992 "Shujō yūraku, Bankoku". Nikon Salon (Ginza, Osaka). 1995–96 "Rakudo Kii hantō". Konica Plaza (Shinjuku, Osaka, Sapporo). 1999 "Sennen rakudo". Nikon Salon (Ginza, Osaka). 2000 "Sennen rakudo Kii hantō". Nara City Museum of Photography. 2002 ".com New York". Nikon Salon (Shinjuku). 2004 "Sharasōju". Visual Arts Gallery. 2006 "Haha". Gallery Out of Place (Nara). 2007 "Ha ha". Galerie Focale (Nyon).Press kit , Visions du Réel, 2007. Accessed 2010-08-25. 2007 "Haha + vegetable". Gallery Bauhaus (Tokyo).Exhibition notice, Gallery Bauhaus. Accessed 2010-08-25. 2007 "Ha ha". Focale Galerie (Locarno). 2010 "Osaka". Nikon Salon (Ginza and Osaka).Exhibition notice (Ginza), Nikon. Accessed 2010-12-07.Exhibition notice (Osaka), Nikon. Accessed 2010-12-28. 2010 "Kamagasaki/Shinsekai: Life in the shadow of the economic miracle". Zen Foto Gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo). Photographs of Shinsekai and Kamagasaki (both in Osaka) by Dodo and Seiryū Inoue.Exhibition notice, Tokyo Art Beat. Accessed 2010-12-24. 2010 "Osaka". Tokio Out of Place (Minami Azabu, Tokyo).Press release , Gallery Out of Place. Accessed 2010-12-24.Exhibition notice, Tokyo Art Beat. Accessed 2010-12-24.

Film, video Coproducer, The Mourning Forest (2007)."The Mourning Forest by Naomi Kawase", Fest21.com. Accessed 2010-08-25. Actor, Tsunagari-yuku mono () / Things Passed Down (dir. Naomi Kawase, 2009). Dodo plays the gruff photographer father in this long commercial for Nikon.Diary entries by Kawase, 27 and 30 April 2009. Accessed 2010-08-25.

Publications by Dodo

Chihei () / Horizon. Issues 1–10. 1971–77.Hard to find in library catalogues, but listed in for example the biography in Osaka, p. 186. Shinsekai: Mukashi mo ima mo (). Osaka: Chōseisha, 1986. Black-and-white photographs of Shinsekai, Osaka. Horizon, 1993. A joint work. Shashin "Ningen no machi" 93/94 () / Faces of Humanity 93/94. Edited by Shunji Dodo, George Hashiguchi, and Naomi Yanagimoto. Published by the editors (at their respective addresses), 1994. Much of the text is in English as well as Japanese. On pp. 156–65 Dodo presents his own series, "Kaosu 1969–1970" (), photographs of people from US military bases and of protests against these. Rakudo: Kii hantō () / A Radiant Land: Kii Peninsula. Osaka: Brain Center, 1995. . Large-format black-and-white photographs of the Kii Peninsula. Sennen rakudo () / A Radiant Land with Thousands of Years. Osaka: Brain Center, 2000. . Large-format colour photographs of the Kii Peninsula. Sharasōju () / Shara. Nara: Sento/Kumie, 2003. With Naomi Kawase; black-and-white photographs of the making of, and production notes for, Kawase's film Shara. Haha (). Nara: Gallery Out of Place, 2006. Saien + sakura () / A Vegetable Garden, Sakura. Osaka: Vacuum Press, 2009. . Black-and-white photographs of the products of Dodo's vegetable garden, and of cherry blossoms. Ōsaka ( / Osaka. Kyoto: Seigensha, 2010. . Large-format black-and-white photographs of Osaka. Haruka na chihei ( / Horizon far and away 1968–1977. Tokyo: Akaakasha, 2012. . Numerous series of Dodo's older photographs. Nihonkai ( / Japan Sea. Tokyo: Akaakasha, 2014. . Photographs of the Sea of Japan coastal area. Sorahoderi no machi ( / A City Aglow. Tokyo: Case, 2019. .

Notes

External links First of a series of five photographs from Haha. Publisher's page for Osaka, with sample photographs. Publisher's page for Saien + sakura, with (tiny) sample photographs. Transcript of a short MBS program about Dodo, broadcast on 21 May 2010.