Issue:
August 2025 | Exhibition
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II
Photos by Hiromi Tsuchida
August 2-30, 2025
In August 2025, the FCCJ will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with an exhibition by Hiromi Tsuchida titled Hiroshima Trilogy: People, Landscape, Objects. With works displayed in the collections of museums in Japan as well as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Tsuchida has meticulously documented items and monuments for over six decades that show how the atomic bombings instantly destroyed everyday life. Each photograph is associated with text that tells a story of life, devastation and recovery.
Tsuchida has continued to photograph the changing fortunes of Japan and the Japanese people from the Showa period to the present day, using his own specially developed method to seemingly freeze objects and landscapes in time. Since the 1970s, he has focused on Hiroshima as one of his main themes with his Hiroshima Trilogy collection—which uses photos and text together—highly acclaimed both in Japan and overseas. Since 1982, he has been photographing material from the collection of the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima. These are timely records that emphasize the symbolic nature of the artifacts left behind after the atomic bombing. The Hiroshima Collection, the conclusion of his trilogy, is an impressive photographic work of approximately 300 objects and was just published in July this year.
Peter Lyon, Chair of the Exhibition Committee
