To mark World Refugee Day on Monday, Brazilian artist Marina Amaral has colourised 12 black-and-white archive photos from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) dating from the 1940s to the 1980s.
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. 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.
