Bring history to life in colour with akg-images

Colour has always been a part of our world and our storytelling. Until the 1940s, colour film was quite rare and very expensive, so our historical photos were taken in black and white. ​ Given the choice, would we rather see these moments in time as the witnesses did, in colour?

With this in mind, akg-images launched an exclusive colourisation service for archive photos. With significant added value: the historical relevance of colours (colours of uniforms and civilian costumes, colours of vehicles, paintwork of aircraft) and increased work on the rendering of colours of the time. Our colourists are also historians.

AKG7771535 Prisonniers du camp d'Auschwitz en liesse après leur libération par l'Armée Rouge, le 21 janvier 1945AKG9019155 Nikolaï Bersarine (avec cigarette) et l'auteur Vsevolov Wischnevski (à gauche) à Berlin le jour de la capitulation de Berlin en 1945

AKG9171226 Soldats de l'armée britannique avant l'embarquement pour le D-Day en Normandie

AKG7771522 Reddition des troupes allemandes à Stalingrad le 31 janvier 1943

First World War, Second World War, Korean War, Vietnam War, scenes of daily life, portraits of personalities: your projects are enhanced by the use of colour images to give a more complete picture of the time.

After using our colourisation service for your images, or publishing our colourisations already available on our website, you will no longer see history in the same way.
​Colour brings these photos to life and shows our history and the lives of previous generations with greater acuity and truth.

AKG7771536 Soldats d’une division d’infanterie britannique près de Sidi Rezegh priant avant d’entrer en action en Novembre 1941AKG9118972 Des soldats américains atteignent Omaha Beach à l’aide d’un radeau de sauvetage, complètement épuisés : certains soldats sont dans un état critique

AKG8948358 Des membres d’équipage du porte-avions USS Saratoga tirent le pilote (ou le mitrailleur ?) blessé Kenneth Bratton hors du cockpit de son bombardier-torpilleur Grumman TBF Avenger au retour d’une mission sur Rabaul en 1943AKG8961711 Marine (Seargent Rance Richardson) lors d’une pause au combat dans la jungle sur le « Numa-Numa Trail » en 1944

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Unless otherwise stated, all photos and colourisations in this article: © akg-images

We can colourise most black and white photos available on our website. ​ Please forward your colourisation requests to the address below.

akg-images London

akg-images Ltd

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