HIROSHIMA
Hiromi Tsuchida
Carefully documenting artefacts held at Hiroshima’s Peace Museum, the great Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has created a series of icons through which the moment of the atomic bomb’s impact resonates. A couple of melted sake bottles, a watch, a Buddha, a girl’s school uniform, a wooden clog... the story of each image focusing you in on the individual lives caught in that moment. Hiroshima has been a major subject in the artist’s work, which is held by many of the world’s major museums. Working with Mark Pearson, the Newcastle-raised owner of Tokyo’s Zen Foto Gallery, Hiromi Tsuchida recently deposited this set of his Hiroshima photographs in the AmberSide Collection.
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