Tatsuo suzuki biography of williams

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Tatsuo Suzuki, known for his black and white ‘street photography’, is one of the contemporary photographers who best conveys the time in which we’re living.

We had the privilege of speaking to him.

A native of Tokyo, Tatsuo cut his teeth at the ‘Resist’ school of photography which was, at the time, run by Masayuki Yoshinaga and Daido Moriyama.

Tatsuo suzuki biography of williams

These two iconic figures in Japanese photography encouraged their students to focus on their personal artistic expression rather than the technical elements surrounding photography, Tatsuo reveals. This sense of creative freedom runs through his art and has fuelled his imagination from the earliest stages.

Now aged 54, the artist only began to take a real interest in photography in 2008, at the age of 43.

‘Now, I can say that my career was a coincidence. One day, somewhat by chance, I bought a digital camera, a “reflex” as the