Brazilian artist Marina Amaral has an amazing talent for transforming black-and-white photos into colour.
Driven by a fascination for history, she is lovingly faithful to the image's context. It's a painstaking process, she tells Business Insider, involving intense research and often months of Photoshop work.
The 21-year-old is drawn to emotive pictures of conflict, but she also breathes life into iconic figures from history in a way you have never seen before. Scroll on to see some Amaral's most arresting and moving work.
"I've always been fascinated by history since I was a kid," artist Marina Amaral told Business Insider. She stumbled upon some colourised historical images on an internet forum and "felt instantly tempted to give it a go." Amaral has now built a career out of her hobby.
She started with a portrait of an American Civil War soldier. Her first effort was "horrendous," Amaral says, but she was "really proud" when it was finished. "I am a very curious and creative person," she says.
Amaral colours every individual detail by hand on Photoshop. She says the hundreds of layers of colour come together to create the "atmosphere that I want in each image."
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