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Francois Brunelle’s Doppelgangers
Canadian photographer Francois Brunelle has embarked on an interesting quest to take portraits of people with their look-alikes. Not the most visually arresting photography project in the world, at least when compared to LaChapelle’s fashion work or Toledano’s “Hope & Fear” series, but it possesses a simplicity that I really enjoy.
These are the people of myth made real. These are the men and women of a thousand stories that began with “I was in the Rome airport and I swear, I saw this person who looked just like you!”.
Everyone hears these stories, but Francois Brunelle is hunting down the people that have actually met and know their doppelgangers. Then he’s capturing them in his portrait photography to show everyone.
While I may never meet or know my duplicate, I really like being able to see and know that others can and have. The way he removes all other elements in terms of using blank backgrounds and neutral clothing really get me to intently study the faces of these people. I definitely look forward to the finished product.
If anyone’s interested, he has put out a request for anyone with a doppelganger or look-a-like to get in touch with him for this project. No compensation is given beyond receiving a free print of your photograph, but it’s an interesting enough project that for a lot of people that it doesn’t matter.
Compensation isn’t everything… unless you’re me.
chicazul Said,
November 22, 2006 @ 7:58 pm
I apparently have many doppelgangers, but I’ve never met even one.
Nathalie Said,
November 22, 2006 @ 9:22 pm
There are two in Halifax! I even know their names (Natalie and Katherine or Kathleen), but I have yet to meet one of them myself. I hear one of them works at Value Village. Maybe once I get a new camera I’ll march over there when she’s working and snap a picture of the two of us.
Jeannette Said,
November 23, 2006 @ 1:48 pm
I have one in Ontario, Ottawa. When I was living on campus at UofO, people kept coming up to me and calling me some other name (sadly, I can’t remember). There was a girl in the dorm tower next to me, who looked EXACTLY like me - we even had the same model of eye glasses.
I hung out with her once or twice, regret not keepign in contact.
She was much more popular than me on campus it seems, because after I dyed my hair black at Halloween, people who I’d never seen before kept telling me that it looked SO different and that they never imagined I’d do such a thing. After a while I got sick of explaining that I wasn’t who they thought I was, and would just smile and say “Thanks”.
It was weird.
Gail Hobbs Weissert Said,
March 2, 2007 @ 8:07 pm
When I was young, in the ’60’s, I had a look-alike, whose name is Janet Andersen Hansen. My husband and I moved to Edmore MI in 1960, and she moved there probably the year before from Trufant, MI, to live with her husband, who was born and raised there. People always got us mixed up, all during the 10 years we lived there, and even after we moved to a neighboring town, one of my own sons thought she was his “Mommy.” We don’t think we look that much alike anymore, but just recently, a lady in the big choir in which I sing thought I was she. She had quit before I started, and this lady thought I was she returning. My husband was from the Flint, Michigan area, and I moved here from Florida.
Sally Styx Said,
March 2, 2007 @ 8:12 pm
I do have a look alike but I have never met her in person. She is an actress who plays on a TV show called Reno 911. My daughter told me to watch the show one night and it was like looking at myself on TV. I do not recall her name she has brown hair and she is tall like me. Several people who also know me say this actress looks just like me
I find this project very interesting and would love to be photographed for it.
Sally Styx
Christina Said,
March 2, 2007 @ 8:45 pm
I have a look a like and we are great friends. Her name is Kim and we met at our church. We look different enough that our church friends easily tell us apart and our families don’t see it. However, when the family members of our friends come or new people attend we are regularly asked if we are sisters sometimes twins. We went out to eat last month and our waitress couldn’t belive that we were not related at all.
It’s nice to have such an amazing friend in the world. Though we are very different we are very much the same. What a creative artist our God is. Further evidence of an intelligent creator
PoyzenIvy Said,
March 3, 2007 @ 5:19 am
I myself have been stared at told many times that I look exactly like “someone I know”. Almost everytime I start a new job or meet a group of new people I am asked if I’m related to a “so and so” or told I remind them of someone they know. I have always just assumed that I had one of those friendly faces. But I am starting to wonder now, if I have a more common face that actually does look like these other women. Hmmm. I wish there was a site that could actually match my face to someone else’s. That would be kind of neat.
Victoria L Hobbs Said,
March 3, 2007 @ 1:01 pm
Hello
I would like to meet my doubles. In various cities I am constantly being walked up to and have intimate conversations started as if I were someone else. This has happened in California, Pittsburgh Pa. and Wichita Ks. They have gone as far as accuse me of lying about who I am. Talked about Highschools when I was younger… I would like to meet the others and see if we are so much alike.
Victoria Hobbs
yah_shamar@yahoo.com
Deb Champagne Said,
March 3, 2007 @ 5:25 pm
I discovered my look alike in a recent issue of AAA magazine, in a Quebec tourism advertisement. I’d love the opportunity to meet this model and to be photographed with her.
Amber Said,
March 5, 2007 @ 12:17 am
I’ve had people come up to me before and ask me when I got my hair cut or why wasn’t I at school. One girl kept glancing at me and when I kept looking back she said that I looked like a girl in her school. Once, when I was in a restaurant, the whole table kept sneeking glances at me, when I looked back and smiled, one of the ladies said,”Sorry, you just look exactly like my neice.” Weird. I’d really like to meet anyone who looks like me. How cool would that be?
Sharon Said,
March 9, 2007 @ 2:46 pm
I also have a double. I have been mistaken for her all the time. One of her best friends thought I was her,and wondered why I didnt say anything to her. I have never met her. This happens to me quite alot in other cities I have been in,I always here \”you look just like….\” I think it would be very interesting to meet my look alike..