1941年、旭川師範学校美術部の生徒たちが特高警察に検挙された「生活図画事件」。
今を生きる当事者２人の生活を通して、80年前の事件を見る。
この写真集は、戦中の北海道旭川で美術部の学生だった菱谷良一氏（98歳）と松本五郎氏（99歳）の今の生活、そして彼らが特高警察に逮捕された「生活図画事件」を追いつづける宮田汎氏（82歳）の姿を髙橋が撮影した「現代」の写真。そして彼らが大切に保管していた「過去」の写真や資料をもとに構成されています。
「テロ等準備罪」が成立した今、当時絵を描いていただけで「治安維持法」に反するとして逮捕されてしまった２人を、「生活」という視点で見つめたこの写真集が何か、現代の私たちの状況や生活を考える材料となるものを写しているのではないか。静かに進んでいくページの中に問いかけを多く含んだ写真集です。
In 1941, students of the art club of Asahikawa Teachers' School were arrested by the Special Higher Police in the "Life Drawing Case". The series looks at the incident that occurred 80 years ago through the lives of two people living in the present.
This collection of photographs carefully depicts the current lives of Ryoichi Hishiya (98 years old) and Goro Matsumoto (99 years old), who were art students in Asahikawa, Hokkaido during the war.
Takahashi's "contemporary" photographs also portray Hiroshi Miyata(82 years old ), who continues to investigate the " Life Drawing Case" in which they were arrested by the Special Higher Police. The book is based on photographs and other materials from the "past" that they kept in their archives.
Now that the "anti-terror conspiracy law" has been enacted in 2017, the photographs of the two men, who were arrested for violating the "Peace Preservation Law" just for drawing daily life scenes, may provide us with something to think about today's situation and life. It is a book of photographs with many questions in the quiet pages.