In 1971, he began his career as a photographer and won the 8th Annual Taiyo Magazine Award.
In 1978 he received the Nobuo Ina Award for his work about Hiroshima and the aftermath of the atomic bomb.
More recent works include, The Berlin Wall (1999), "Shin Suna wo Kazoeru" (New Counting the Grains) (2002), and Fake Scape (2002).
After serving as principal of the Tokyo College of Photography, he became an Affiliate professor at Osaka University in 2000.
In 2007, Hiromi Tsuchida's Japan, a retrospective, was held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography[4] where he was presented with the 27th Annual Ken Domon Award.