Hiroshima: photography by Hiromi Tsuchida

Photographer Hiromi Tsuchida's documentation of the survivors and the dead from the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, which took place 60 years ago today.

In an online gallery hosted on the servers of Lewis And Clark College in Oregon, there are several categories of images: places, people, and personal belongings.

Watch.

[Owner] Kengo Futagawa (59 at the time) was crossing the Kannon Bridge (1,600 meters from the hypocenter) by bicycle on his way to do fire prevention work.

He jumped into the river, terribly burned. He returned home, but died on August 22, 1945.

Mr. Osamu Kataoka. Age: 45; occupation: university professor; family: wife. At that time -- age: 13; at school (800 meters from the hypocenter); father and elder brother died; mother and two elder sisters injured.

"I ran to the edge of the pool. What did I see there? A drowned classmate, who was burned all over. Another classmate was trying to put out a fire on a friend's clothes with his own spouting blood." (written at age 17)

Link to gallery home.