1. Stuart Humphryes was born on 10 December 1969 and is an English multimedia artist for print, film and television, and a social media content creator, chiefly known for his work enhancing early colour photography.
27 Facts About Stuart Humphryes
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Stuart Humphryes first rose to prominence colourising the British television series Doctor Who.
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Stuart Humphryes is widely known by his alias "BabelColour", a public persona that was created in 2006 with the launch of his YouTube channel.
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Stuart Humphryes has popularised the autochrome process amongst the general public, with over 200,000 followers on his autochrome-enhancement Twitter feed.
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In September 2023, Stuart Humphryes released a large format art-book entitled The Colors of Life, which collated over 200 of his enhanced autochromes and paget plates.
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On 18 July 2022, the Portuguese news magazine Visao ran a feature and interview with Stuart Humphryes, exploring his photo enhancement work.
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The December 2020 and January 2021 issues of the US-based Wild West magazine included restoration and photo colourisation work by Stuart Humphryes, who had employed artificial neural networking to reconstruct and enhance the face of Billy the Kid from the only verified tintype photograph of the outlaw.
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In 2015, Stuart Humphryes colourised the cover of Mark Iveson's biographical reference book Cursed Horror Stars.
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In 2012, Stuart Humphryes wrote a treatise on Doctor Who entitled 'Teatime and an Open Mind' for the non-fiction book You and Who.
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In November 2014 Stuart Humphryes was one of the "big names in the Whovian community" interviewed by the Houston Press for his positive critical opinion of Series 8 of Doctor Who.
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Stuart Humphryes returned to this publication in 2008 to colourise the cover of their omnibus reprint of issues 1 and 2.
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In 2025, Stuart Humphryes extended his online presence by establishing photo enhancement accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Threads.
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On 15 September 2022, Stuart Humphryes tweeted original colour footage from the 1952 Lying-in-state and funeral procession for the late King George VI.
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On 8 November 2018, Stuart Humphryes tweeted his own recitation of the Great War poem "In Flanders Fields" to mark the centenary of Armistice Day.
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In 2005 Stuart Humphryes collaborated with James Russell, a design engineer who was one of the founder members of the Doctor Who Restoration Team and the son of film director Ken Russell to colourise the surviving 35mm film from the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Daleks' Master Plan.
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Between 2011 and 2013 Stuart Humphryes was the sole colourising artist working alongside the video restoration company SVS Resources to complete the commercial colourisation of The Mind of Evil for the BBC.
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In February 2012 Stuart Humphryes was engaged by SVS Resources to recolourise monochrome footage from the 1975 Doctor Who serial Terror of the Zygons in preparation for a special extended "director's cut" of the story on DVD.
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The process used by Stuart Humphryes however, is unusual in that it does not employ these methods of separating colour to produce each key frame but instead each individual frame is colourised as a single completed image.
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Stuart Humphryes was dubbed a "colourisation and compositing legend" by the BBC's AfterShow.
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Stuart Humphryes received commendation for his colourisation work in 2015 from the Doctor Who showrunner, head writer and producer Steven Moffat, who cited Humphryes as one of "the next generation of creatives".
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Stuart Humphryes established The BabelColour Channel on YouTube on 10 August 2006, focusing entirely on Doctor Who content.
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Between 2009 and 2015 Stuart Humphryes uploaded a four-part web series entitled The Ten Doctors.
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Stuart Humphryes has been interviewed about the project a number of times, including in the Houston Press and the on-line magazine Theta Morbius Times, with the opening episode being nominated as one of the "8 Most Amazing Fan Videos on YouTube" by Digital Spy.
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Originally conceived as a re-imagining of his 4-part web-serial The Ten Doctors, Stuart Humphryes began work on the venture in 2019, under the title of The Ten Doctors Re-Imagined.
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In 2017, at the suggestion of actor and screenwriter Mark Gatiss, Stuart Humphryes created a two-part web series entitled "The Almost Doctors".
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Stuart Humphryes graduated from Suffolk College with a BA degree in Design Communications.
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Stuart Humphryes is second cousin to former Tasmanian premier Albert Ogilvie.