These historic black and white photos have been transformed into colour masterpieces by a 21-year-old Brazilian artist

Brazilian artist Marina Amaral has an amazing talentfor 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 ofPhotoshop 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 explains.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."See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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