Born in 1976 in Saga Prefecture, Kodo Chijiiwa lived in Yakushima since 2003. In 2008, after working as an assistant to photographer Iris Janke in Berlin, Germany, Kodo.C participated in the group exhibition "PHOTODOC" at Galerie HUIT (Arles, France)., and established the Yakushima Photography Festival (YPF). During the 2016-2019 Arles International Photo Festival, Kodo.C exhibited the YPF Gallery to great acclaim. In 2019, Kodo.C was invited as the first AIR artist for the photography festival "BZH PHOTO" in Brittany and exhibited in July of the same year.The artist signed an agent contract with art historian and independent curator Yolita Rene in 2023 and will hold an exhibition at the M.K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum (Kaunas, Lithuania).