Thread by @marinamaral2

This is the first photo I restored from a series taken by Alberto Henschel in Brazil before the slavery-abolition law.

These will not be sold as prints but I'll make the whole collection available in high-resolution (for free) in case you want to use it for educational purposes.

The original caption only says "Cafuza". Nothing else is known about this woman neither about when or where the photo was taken.

🇧🇷 Essa foto é parte de uma serie tirada pelo fotógrafo Alberto Henschel durante as décadas que antecederam a Lei Áurea. Estou restaurando todas elas.

A série completa estará disponível em alta resolução em breve.

Although the colors look a bit different, here is a gif that shows part of the process.

"Cafuzo is a racial term used in the Casta caste class system of the Spanish and Portuguese empires to identify individuals in the Americas who are of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry. "

🇧🇷 a coleção será disponibilizada de graça. Em breve. :)

I'm working on 22 other images. It may take a while, but they will be published on my website (hopefully) soon.

Thank you so much for supporting this project. It means more than you can imagine.

"By the end of the 1860s, Henschel's houses of Recife and Salvador were already making portraits of people of African origin, slaves and free, differing from other photographers by portraying them freely and with dignity as people and not as objects."