is a Japanese

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. His creative photo career is over 40 years long. Tsuchida has produced several collections of photographs of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. He has produced many photo books such as ''Zokushin'', ''Counting Grains of Sand'', ''New Counting Grains of Sand'' and ''The Berlin Wall''. There is also a retrospective of his life's work titled, ''Hiromi Tsuchida's Japan''. Tsuchida has received the Nobuo Ina Award and the Ken Domon Award.

Life and work

Tsuchida was born in 1939 in Fukui Prefecture. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Fukui. In 1971, he began his career as a photographer and won the 8th Annual Taiyo Magazine Award. In 1976, he turned his focus on Japanese folk nature and published ''Zokushin''. In 1978 he received the Nobuo Ina Award for his work about Hiroshima and the aftermath of the atomic bomb. He continued to document that theme with ''Hiroshima Monument'' and ''Hiroshima Collection''. In 1995, he started digital photography. More recent works include, ''The Berlin Wall'' (1999), "Shin Suna wo Kazoeru" (New Counting the Grains) (2002), and ''Fake Scape'' (2002). Tsuchida is a committee member of the Nikon Salon. After serving as principal of the Tokyo College of Photography, he became an Affiliate professor at

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in 2000. In 2007, ''Hiromi Tsuchida's Japan'', a retrospective, was held at the

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where he was presented with the 27th Annual Ken Domon Award.

Awards

*8th Annual Taiyo Magazine Award *1971 Solar Award *1978

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*2008

Domon Ken Award The Domon Ken Award (土門拳賞, ''Domon-Ken-shō'') is one of Japan's photographic awards. The award was started in 1981 by the Mainichi Newspapers to mark the 110th birthday of the '' Mainichi Shimbun'', its daily newspaper and main publicatio ...

Collections

His works can be found in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the

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in New York, the

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in Paris, the

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, the European Photography Center,

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, and the

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References

External links

Hiromi Tsuchida's works at Tokyo Digital Museum
* Japanese photographers 1939 births Living people Tokyo College of Photography alumni University of Fukui alumni Academic staff of Osaka University {{Japan-photographer-stub