A homage to the great heritage of the Cannes Film Festival. Taking a modern twist on a traditional colour tinting process.
For this project, I developed skills in photo colourisation. This process was used before cost effective or reliable colour film was readily available, artists would paint washes of colour over black-and-white slides, prints and film to imitate colour. Practitioners would work to match skin-tones with existing slides, giving depth to photography in a way never experienced before. I used a still of William Holden with Audrey Hepburn from the 1954 film Sabrina. This film was featured in ‘Un certain regard’ a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection run parallel to the Palme d'Or.
The colour tinting process: original source image, isolated from background, colour selection and final multiplying with level adjustments.
The finalised colourisation in place situated on Canne Beach.