Tatsuki was born in 1937 into a family that operates an old and established portrait studio. He moved to attend Tokyo junior College of Photography (forerunner of Tokyo institute of Polytechnics, Tokyo Kogei Daigaku). While at the college, he exhibited photographs of his family at the Fuji Photo Salon, which had just opened at the tome.
After graduation, he began working as a photographer at Ad Center, where Seiichi Horiuchi worked as art director. Tatsuki’s name entered the limelight when ha was just 26 years old with the publication of A fallen angel, an astonishing 56 pages feature of his photographs shots for Camera Mainichi.
Since 1969 he has worked as a freelance photographer on the front lines of the advertising, magazine, publishing, and motion picture industries. He has published a particularly large number of works addressing female subjects. His best-known published works include GIRL, EVES, Private Mariko Kaga, Aoi Toki, My America, and Portrait of Family.