Dojc grew up in Humenné in Eastern Slovakia, where his father was headmaster of a secondary school and his mother a teacher. Following the advice of his father, Dojc decided that he would not return and a year later emigrated to Toronto, Canada.
Dojc studied mechanical engineering followed by psychology at Comenius University in Bratislava before the Soviet invasion interrupted his schooling.
The family later relocated to Bratislava. In 1968 he was on a summer student exchange program in London when the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia occurred. Upon arriving in Canada, he enrolled in the photography program at Ryerson University in Toronto.
While at school, he become photo editor of the student weekly Eyeopener working alongside future newspaper journalist Christie Blatchford, Canadian Broadcasting Company reporter Paul Workman, City reporter Jojo Chintoh and comedian Paul Chato.
Among Dojc"s early influences are Edward Weston, Irving Penn, Manitoba Ray and Guy Bourdin, as well as painters René Magritte, Egon Schiele, and Amedeo Modigliani. His early shots were of doors, windows, chairs and flowers before gravitating toward human subjects.
In the 1980s during the height of the poster business, Dojc"s images appeared in the movie District of Columbia Cab. "Legs", "Bicycle", and "Chair" were three of his biggest sellers.
His commercial clients have included Federal Express , Apple, General Motors, Porsche, Canon, Club Medical, Brooks and Panasonic.
Last Folio: A Photographic Journey with Yuri Dojc opened at the Gonwille Cays Library in Cambridge, England. Also shown at the Grunwald Gallery at the University of Indiana on September 1, 2011. the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New New York The European Commission in Brussels.
The oldest synagogue in Košice, Slovakia (opened on June 11, 2013).
And the National Museum of Slovakia.
