Majored in applied chemistry at Waseda University, Naito Masatoshi first experimented with photographs on the forms created by chemical reactions and turned them into documentaries in the late 1960s, such as Ba Ba Bakuhatsu (Grandma Explosion) and started to shoot the series Tono Story and Tokyo, which were shown publicly in the 1980s. He received a newcomer’s prize from the Japanese Photo critic society and the Ken Domon Prize.
