Hiromi Tsuchida and others 土田ヒロミ ほか

Born in 1939 in Fukui Prefecture. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of University of Fukui. In 1971 he resigned from POLA Cosmetics to become a freelance photographer. Beginning in 1975, he has spent 50 years photographing Hiroshima, the first city in the world to suffer an atomic bomb attack, while also capturing the changing face of Japan through themes such as rapid economic growth, the bubble economy, traditional festivals, and folk culture. Representative works include Self-Enclosed Space (1971, Taiyo Award), Hiroshima (1984, Japan Photographers Association Award), and Hiromi Tsuchida’s Japan (2008, Domon Ken Award). He has also published the photobooks Zokushin (TOSEI publishing, 1976), Counting Grains of Sand (TOSEI publishing, 1990), Berlin (Heibonsha, 2011), Fukushima 2011–2017 (Misuzu Shobo, 2018), Aging (Fugensha, 2022), and The Path of Ouroboros (Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2024). His works are in the collections of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Yokohama Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou.