Hand-colouring refers to any method of manually adding colour to a black-and-white photograph, generally either to heighten the realism of the photograph or for artistic purposes. Hand-colouring is also known as hand painting or overpainting. The artist uses this technique to add a new and different dimension to his black and white photographs hand-colouring  them with watercolours.

Spanish-born Ignacio de Juana lived in Kuala Lumpur for two and a half years and has recently moved to George Town to open his own studio here. He has been exhibiting since 2000, in Spain, Thailand, Greece and Malaysia. Amongst others, he participated in the 8 Cities Art Meets Photography in 2019, representing Madrid, Spain, and organised by the Malaysian Advanced Photographer Group in collaboration with Taiwan Hualien County Government Cultural Bureau to exhibit multi-cultural visual art forms from calligraphy, painting to photography