Tatsuo Suzuki

Tatsuo Suzuki lives in Yokohama and works mainly in Tokyo.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Waseda University and spent 25 years in sales at Fujitsu, leaving the company in 2014 to work as a photographer. He began photographing in 2008, at the age of 43.

In 2013 he won the Grand Prize in the PhotoVogue section of the Photolux Festival in Lucca, Italy, and in 2016 the Grand Prize at the Steidl Book Award Japan. Friction / Tokyo Street was published by Steidl in Germany in June 2020, and The Sound of Waves (濤声) followed in December 2024 as the first volume of BUNDLE on his own imprint, SHATARO’s LAB.

In 2017 he founded VoidTokyo, a collective publishing Tokyo street photography in zine form, now in its eleventh volume.

He works in monochrome and in a single exposure, photographing at close range with direct flash and a slow shutter. His subjects have widened from the street to portraits, flowers, and live performance, and he treats the whole body of work as a personal document.

His work is held in the Sixteen Photography Collection and in the collection of the Haeden Museum in Ganghwa, South Korea, and his prints are on permanent display at The Tokyo EDITION Ginza.

He is an Honorary Member of Street Photography France, has served as head juror for Trieste Photo Days and The Independent Photographer, and teaches through KLPA workshops and his own review workshops.