Marina Amaral

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Marina Amaral
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Marina Amaral
Born1994 (age 2930)
NationalityBrazilian
Website www.marinamaral.com

Marina Amaral (born in 1994) is a Brazilian artist known for her colorizations of historical black and white photographs.

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Work

A self-taught artist, she was an international relations student in college, [2] but dropped out in April 2015 to pursue art full-time. [3] [4]

Amaral's creative process involves adding color to black and white photographs using Photoshop, following careful historical research to determine the colors of each object pictured. [1] [5] Amaral describes what she does as providing a "second perspective" as the pictures with color convey images that do not seem too far removed from the contemporaneous viewer. [6] [7] [8] Her process of colorizing a photo can take as little as an hour or more than a month to complete. [9] [4] [10] [11] Each colorized photo may include hundreds of layers. [12]

In 2017, Amaral was the illustrator for historian Dan Jones' book, The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850–1960. [13] [14]

In 2018 Amaral colorized twenty archival photos of Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners, under the project title Faces of Auschwitz. [15] [16] [17] The project was a collaboration with the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. [18]

Personal life

In 2020, Amaral was revealed to be on the autism spectrum. [19]

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