“This came out of my involvement with the anti-Vietnam protests. Vietnam was one of the most awful crimes of my lifetime, the murder of more than one million Vietnamese killed and sixty thousand Americans. This is a poster for a series of paintings that I made over the following few years called the ‘STOP’ paintings. It uses an image of a dead Vietnamese and a U.S. soldier. Here the soldier is in negative and the figure of the Vietnamese is in positive. I started making the anti-Vietnam work after I went on a huge anti-war demonstration in March 1968, which went to Grosvenor Square and became quite famous. After going to that demonstration, I wanted to find new ways to work beyond painting. At that time, I had been painting but then started using images from newspaper and magazines, tearing them up and reconstructing the images. That was the beginning of me making photomontage.” – Peter Kennard