Tatsuo Suzuki (鈴木達朗) is a Japanese street photographer, born in Tokyo in 1965. Because of his father's work he moved all over Japan as a child. He studied at Waseda University, worked as a salesman and began photographing the streets in 2008. He lives in Yokohama and works mainly in Tokyo.
He is known for close, high-contrast black-and-white photographs of people in Tokyo, especially in Shibuya, and names Robert Frank and Jack Davison as his main influences. His first book, Friction / Tokyo Street (Steidl, 2020), won the Steidl Book Award Japan and gathers his street work from 2009 to 2018. The Sound of Waves followed in 2024 on his own imprint, SHATARO's LAB.
In 2016 he won first place for street photography at the ND Awards.
