![]() Behind her, the battered clothes of the four men, the old woman and the little boy who accompany her have also been restored to their beige and brown tones. The child has fled to Tunisia to escape the Algerian war. In particular, she puts colour back into the eyes of a little girl staring into the lens of photojournalist Stanley Wright in 1959. Colours break that wall and allow us to connect on an emotional level and not just rationally.”įor "The Colour of Flight", Amaral has colourised 12 stories, at 12 different times and places around the world. They were just like us, with their own dreams, ambitions, fears, struggles, etc. "That difference creates an emotional barrier which makes it difficult for us to understand that the people we are seeing in those photos, even in those taken more than 100 years ago, were real. ![]() However, I think it is hard to connect with them because we don’t live in black and white. “As historical documents they are very important. "My main goal is to create a bridge between past and present," said Amaral, whose mother is a historian.Ī history enthusiast since childhood, Amaral said she loves black-and-white photos. In colourising the photos, her aim is clear: to bring the reader closer to these photographs of yesteryear. ‘The colours allow us to connect on an emotional level’ In 2018, her colourised photo of Czeslawa Kwoka, a 14-year-old child killed at Auschwitz, went viral on social media. The author of "The Colour of Time" – a book that compiles 200 restored and colourised photos of historical figures, places and events – she has made a name for herself by colourising photos of Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein and Elizabeth II. On May 23, the number of displaced people in the world passed the 100 million mark for the first time – just over 1% of the world's population.įor this project, entitled "The Colour of Flight", UNHCR collaborated with Brazilian artist Marina Amaral, 30, who specialises in colouring archival images. “But we also chose them because they show some things the world needs more of today, like access to safety, food and shelter, and the ability to return home in safety and dignity or be resettled to a safe third country.” “We selected these photos in part for their composition and geographic scope, as well as the many decades they span,” said Christopher Reardon, Head of Global Communications Desk at UNHCR. On the other side of the world, in 1978, boat people flee Vietnam and reach Malaysia. Black-and-white photographs of refugees fill history books that we often leaf through without paying close attention.įor World Refugee Day on Monday June 20, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) decided to give these forgotten pictures fresh life, colourising 12 photographs from its archive of 100,000 images, while also retracing 70 years of exodus around the world. A Czech father consoles his son in a camp for displaced persons in Germany in 1949 10 years later, amid the Algerian war, a little Algerian girl taking refuge in Tunisia stares into the lens of a photojournalist.
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