“I’ve always been very involved in making images around the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – the United Nations Declaration of 1948 – which was a great, idealistic hope after the Second World War. Article 5 states: ‘No one shall be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.’ I made images about torture, and at that time, there weren’t any photos. Since then, we’ve seen all the horrific pictures of Abu Ghraib that were taken by US soldiers in Iraq. At that time [in 1973] I had to construct something myself. I was working for a daily newspaper called ‘Workers Press,’ and I had to do the picture in a day. I couldn’t find a picture of a scientist, so I rushed down to Smithfield meat market and photographed a meat porter, appearing here as the guy in the white coat. The image was about how torture was being scientifically thought about, discussed and arranged. I saw this as a complete abhorrence, how scientists were involved in methods of torture.” – Peter Kennard