‘Skipped’ (1980) relates to Margaret Thatcher’s election victory in 1979, which was an all-out assault to destroy Labour power in the United Kingdom, destroy the miners and break the trade unions. Kennard created photomontages as objects in themselves, as well as images for reproduction. They were not intended as beautiful images simply to be mounted but to show the inner workings and interconnectivity of each photograph. Kennard’s approach to photomontage was inspired by Walter Benjamin’s theory of montage and Bertolt Brecht’s idea of alienation theory.

Kennard says of these influences: “Brecht didn’t want people to go into his plays and come out feeling like their emotions had been spent. He wanted people to think and made them very aware they were looking at a play through what he called ‘alienation effects.’ Brecht talked about this in visual terms, like montage, which made you aware you are not looking at the real thing, encouraging you to think critically of the subject.”