Hiromi Tsuchida Photo Exhibition: ZOKUSHIN / Gods of the Earth

Hiromi Tsuchida

Hiromi Tsuchida was born in 1939 in the village of Sakai, Nanjo-gun (now Minamiechizen-cho), Fukui Prefecture. After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Fukui in 1963, he was employed at Pola Cosmetics. In 1964, after being transferred to Tokyo, he studied in the graduate program at Tokyo College of Photography, graduating in 1966. In 1971, he became independent and pursued a career as a photographer. That same year, he won the 8th Annual Taiyo Magazine Award for Autistic Space. Around 1976 he began work on his “Hiroshima trilogy,” which was published as Hiroshima 1945–1979 (Asahi Sonorama Publications Inc., 1979), Hiroshima Monument (Tosei-sha, 1995), and Hiroshima Collection (NHK Publishing, 1995). He continues photographing Hiroshima to this day. Tsuchida received the 40th Photographic Society of Japan Award in 1984 and the 3rd Ina Nobuo Award in 1987. In 2008, he won the 27th Domon Ken Award for Hiromi Tsuchida's Japan (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum). He head the Tokyo College of Photography from 1992 to 1996, and was a professor in the Department of Photography at Osaka University of Arts from 2000 to 2013. In addition to the aforementioned publications, other major photo books include ZOKUSHIN (Otto's Books, 1976), Counting Grains of Sand (Toseisha, 1990), New Counting Grains of Sand (Toseisha, 2005), BERLIN (Heibonsha, 2011), Fukushima (Misuzu Shobo, 2018), and Aging (Fugensha, 2022). His works are in the collections of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Tate Modern; the National Gallery of Canada; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Centre Pompidou, and others.