Atsuko Tateno has a 5 years old dog who can express her emotion. She wondered that the other kind of animals do the same thing like her dog does. Atsuko observed animals at zoo. She couldn’t find any changes of their facial expression at that time. But she took photos of them, and went home. There were a lot of animals who have feelings and show those emotions on their faces when she checked the pictures she took. She retouched photos because she wanted their face stood out against the plain background.

Atsuko Tateno graduated from University Of Central Oklahoma. Her major was Photojournalism. She went back to Japan after the graduation. She became a web-designer instead of a photographer to persue her interest in design field. But she could not stop her feeling about being a professional photographer. She is a amature photographer, who has a dream of being a professional photgrapher, and a retoucher.