Since 2007, this Foundation has worked with students from Hiroshima Municipal Motomachi Senior High School's Comprehensive Creative Expression Course to produce Pictures of the Atomic Bombing. The students work together with this Foundation's A-bomb witnesses to depict scenes from the time of the bombing that remain in the memories of the witnesses.
From 2015, 12 witnesses worked on the pictures with 30 students, graduates and teachers divided into 12 groups, and as of July 2016 they had completed 35 pictures.
At the completion exhibition held in the Motomachi High School Exhibition Gallery on July 4, 12 A-bomb witnesses attended, together with the students who created the paintings, other students from the Creative Expression Course, and members of this Foundation and Motomachi High School.
The student who produced a picture of a mother carrying her dead child on her back said "I wanted to depict a memory that doesn't disappear even after 70 years. It was tough drawing the expression on the dead child's face." Another student who drew a huge blaze that had resulted from a fireball of nuclear explosion said "I had never seen a fireball so it was hard to create an image of what it was like. I did some research at the Peace Memorial Museum." They spoke about the difficulty of trying to depict the experiences of the A-bomb witnesses in their pictures.
The Pictures of the Atomic Bombing preserve the devastation of Hiroshima after the bombing in pictures. They are being used to provide people with a deeper understanding of the A-bomb experience, and are being made use of to communicate the reality of the damage of the bombing to the next generation, in talks given by hibakusha, lectures to pass on the A-bomb experience by A-bomb Legacy Successors (A-bomb experience memory-keepers), and other activities.