I
have been going through my mum's photobox for the first time since I
left London. I've decided to digitalize the very old and the most
important ones to start just in case they get damaged or lost but my
plan is to add more with time. I intend to post these copies onto a
website and make them “safe” somewhere like flickr, photobucket
etc. Going through this box of photographs is something I've been
doing since my childhood and it will be sad if one day they disapear.
So
while going through the box I've found some copies where the images
were hand-tinted. I had completely forgotten about these photos after
all these years... and this is a photographic technique I've learnt
while living in London which I really like. I've been buying old
photographs and hand-colouring them for quite sometime so to me it
was a kind of surprise to find few examples within my own family
album.
My mum's photo of her First Communion...
My father and my mum below ...
... and this is me.
The most interesting one is my grandparent's portrait. This photo is about 8x10 and is heavily coloured, a style very known in Brazil through Mestre Júlio Santos.
