“This was made two years after Bloody Sunday, which was a demonstration against new laws in Ireland allowing authorities to intern civilians. There was a peaceful demonstration, but the British Army started shooting people and killed 13 people, with 15 injured. Lawyers are still fighting for justice all this time later, but no one has been indicted or brought to justice. This image shows a rubber bullet and the generic face of a protester, broken up. Hands and faces have been something that have always concerned me, right from when I was painting in my early teens. The face here has been worked on with broken marks, etched marks. It’s something I wanted to do with these images, to have realistic parts like the rubber bullet, and then to have a really broken part. Hopefully this inspires the viewer to think about how they stand in relation to the subject, rather than it just being a realistic image. It has a sort of distancing effect, which was one of the original ideas of photomontage.” – Peter Kennard