Canadian photographer Francois Brunell searches and photographs similar people, but who are not related to each other. He has currently done about 200 couple portraits.

Canadian photographer Francois Brunelle spent 12 years tracking down real life Doppelgängers — two individuals who are not related but could pass for identical twins — and photographing them. He calls his project “I’m Not a Look-Alike,” and it’s starting to get some well-deserved attention.

Article with more pictures: chasejarvis.com/…/me-myself-and-i-francois-brunel…

Photograph website: www.francoisbrunelle.com/webn/e-project.html

ShortFuse,

Somebody face-swap them all.

ElPenguin,

Cool idea, but like most of these people don’t look alike at all. Completely different noses, jaws, chins, eyes, etc.

GeoGio7,

I think he’s going for a more subtle similarity. Like they look like they could be related but necessarily twins.

CoggyMcFee,

If they looked exactly alike it wouldn’t even be interesting. You could just photograph actual twins

dutchkimble,

Very cool and all, but why are all the doppelgangers in deep love with each other?

afraid_of_zombies,

Marketing determined that having them blood covered, with ripped clothing, and holding blades at arms length wasn’t as appealing to most audiences

dutchkimble,

There can be only one, McLeod

altima_neo,
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https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/019/862/nowneitherofuswillbevirgins.jpg

Esqplorer,

If I was sure I wasn’t related to them, banging my doppelganger would be a very interesting experience.

Zahille7,

Tbh I’d be totally interested to find my doppelganger(s) from around the world. Just kinda like a neat experiment/experience.

IndustryStandard,

Their faces often match but their jawlines don’t.

The mustache people are cheats.

whoisearth,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

What are the odds that both these guys, not related, looks like a douche? Man coincidences are fucking weird.

blog.chasejarvis.com/…/chasejarvis_francoisbrunel…

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/d96ef1d7-e62b-420b-b5be-1e2b3feb9998.jpeg

Sam_Bass,

I get mistaken for someone all the time. Can be annoying

uriel238,
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

And this illustrates a problem of using facial recognition databases as a security measure. False positives lead to false convictions.

perviouslyiner,

Would be an interesting test set for categorising the accuracy of such software.

ColeSloth,

Boy, a couple of his pics are lookin creepy.

Obi,
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What’s with the poses haha, it’s making me so uncomfortable.

Blackmist,

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/cf8458bb-d18d-4b6b-a080-b69596611207.png

ColeSloth,

Effing fantastic. Lol

jabjoe,

News flash, none of us are as unique as we think.

tegs_terry,

None of us is as unique

khannie,
@khannie@lemmy.world avatar

Except me. I’m definitely unique. Right?

ada,
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Just like everyone else!

Guntrigger,

Am I the only one that thinks most of them don’t look that similar?

Crozekiel,

You’re not alone, I thought the same thing… They don’t look that similar, they would make a really trash “spot the difference” challenge.

Dkarma,

Ok now imagine you’re the only witness to a crime and the doppleganger walks in. You wouldn’t question your recollection??

Bs

Guntrigger,

True, but probably also true if any person of the same skin tone and haircut walked in.

HonoraryMancunian,

Well they’re not literal identical twins

pachrist,

I feel like that’s because we actually get to see them side by side. But if you were friends with one and saw the other as a stranger out in public, say the grocery store, it might warrant a “holy shit, I just saw someone who looks exactly like you,” text accompanied by an awkwardly zoomed in picture of them in the frozen foods aisle.

PumaStoleMyBluff,

They look close enough to be fraternal twins to me 🤷🏻

Guntrigger,

Yeah, maybe in some cases. It does feel like there’s a lot of heavy lifting being done by the styling, lighting and angles though.

scorpious,

Wil Ferrell + RHCP drummer = so much this.

CalamityPayne,
@CalamityPayne@jlai.lu avatar

Agreed. For your information his name is Chad Smith.

whoisearth,
@whoisearth@lemmy.ca avatar

Pretty sure he said his name was Wil Farrell.

Anticorp,

When I was a young man I went on vacation to another city, and while there I was constantly approached by people who wanted to buy drugs from me. Apparently I had a doppelganger in that city who was a street corner drug dealer.

Duke_Nukem_1990,

So what did you sell them?

constantokra,

This used to happen to me literally everywhere I went. Sometimes you just give off a drug dealer vibe I guess?

For what it’s worth, I’m a bit odd because I’m autistic, and I’ve never touched a drug my doctor didn’t prescribe in my life.

Anticorp,

They were calling me by a different name, so I’m pretty sure I looked like a known dealer. It was really weird, and kinda scary since several of the people that approached me were obviously in withdrawals and didn’t believe me that I had no idea what they were talking about.

variants,

This dude is trying to categorize all the different NPC variants.

We always joked about this when I worked at a really busy pizza place, how around the corner er all the npcs would spawn and sometimes you’d get the same one in a row just rendered a different color outfit

DontRedditMyLemmy,

Sounds like a tedious job better suited to AI. Fight me.

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