Peter Kennard

Peter Kennard was born in London on February 17, 1949. He is also a photomontage artist and Senior Research Reader at the Royal College of Art in London. Kennard is clearly very anti-war and he contributed largely to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. His works are very plain as they are only in black and white. But, being that the issue is a very serious one, I believe this was his intention. Kennard wanted people to realize that the effects of war and especially nuclear missiles are black and white. The continued fighting and bombing of one another could only lead to the destruction of the Earth. Another one of his works gives us some insight into his beliefs for a solution. One of the images shows a peace sign cutting a missile in half, suggesting that peace is the only way to prevent the destruction. The first image is a play on greed and the ones who wage war. Kennard is proposing that if war continues, the only thing they will have left is their money and that will not be able to feed them when everything else has been destroyed.