“When we dream, no matter how strange the dream is, we are only carried along by it as a raft adrift on waves.”
Yoshihiro Tatsuki
Born in Tokushima in 1937. Graduated from Tokyo Professional School of Photography (now Tokyo Polytechnic University) in 1958. Joined Adcenter as a photographer when the agency was founded and went freelance in 1969. Since then, he has worked in a wide range of fields, including advertising, magazines and publishing. In 1965, Camera Mainichi published his series Shitadashi tenshi (Angels with Tongues Sticking Out) as a 56-page photo story. Composed by Makoto Wada, with poems by Shoji Terayama and explanatory notes by Shinichi Kusamori, it was a bold editorial that was well received and is still considered a “phenomenon in the history of postwar photography.
His photo books include Girl (1970), Private, Actress Mariko Kaga (71), Momoe Yamaguchi’s autobiography Aoi Toki (Blue Time) (80), My America (82), Kazoku no shozo (Portrait of the Family) (90), and Arifureta Keshiki / Paysages ordinaires (07).
Photographer Yoshihiro Tatsuki is a driver of dreams and a spectator at the same time. His ethereal and often controversial style offered a glimpse into Japanese culture that the world may not have been as familiar with.
