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: https://www.chasejarvis.com/blog/me-myself-and-i-francois-brunelle-and-his-doppelganger-project-find-your-look-alike/

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

  • TomMasz
    link
    fedilink
    677 months ago

    Makes you wonder how many people got jailed for a crime they didn’t commit before the widespread use of fingerprints and DNA just because they resembled someone else.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      657 months ago

      People still do.

      I can’t find the study but people over estimate whether someone looks familiar, especially in stressful situations.

      There are people in prison right now because they look like the perpetrator.

      Imma give you a guess as to the races of these people.

      The wikipedia article on eyewitness testimony goes into more detail.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        177 months ago

        The book ‘Picking Cotton’ is a hard read, but its nonfiction about a woman realizing she identified the wrong man for SA. Its excellent.

    • teft
      link
      107 months ago

      Happens all the time. Just look up prison doppelgänger and you’ll get a bunch of hits. One guy spent 17 years falsely imprisoned.

    • @Ultragigagigantic
      link
      77 months ago

      Why do you think the homicide clearence rate has plummeted? Can’t just swing by a random black person, beat the shit out of them, and pin a crime on them like you used to.

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox
      link
      English
      57 months ago

      Step 1: Don’t be black.

      Step 2: Don’t be born before 1960.

      Actually nevermind lol.

  • @MeatsOfRage
    link
    467 months ago

    Very cool, I wonder how he finds the matches.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    457 months ago

    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

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
    link
    fedilink
    317 months ago

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

    • @perviouslyiner
      link
      66 months ago

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

    • pachrist
      link
      427 months ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      37 months ago

      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
        link
        97 months ago

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

        Bs

    • @PumaStoleMyBluff
      link
      26 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        26 months ago

        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.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
    link
    English
    167 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      77 months ago

      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.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
        link
        English
        37 months ago

        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.

  • @IndustryStandard
    link
    137 months ago

    Their faces often match but their jawlines don’t.

    The mustache people are cheats.

  • @Hubi
    link
    11
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    A few of them look so much alike, it’s uncanny.

  • John Richard
    link
    57 months ago

    Two people that look alike but aren’t related. That’s what I’m talking about!

  • @Zahille7
    link
    56 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    46 months ago

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

    • @GeoGio7
      link
      116 months ago

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

    • @CoggyMcFee
      link
      36 months ago

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

    • @A_Union_of_Kobolds
      link
      67 months ago

      Damn, I was thinking he had some kind of doppelganger-finding method worked out. Kinda wanted to call him and be like “find mine”

      • @LemmyKnowsBest
        link
        37 months ago

        I guess I deleted my comment because in the OP title it says the photographer has found 200 couples. But at his website it only shows photos of six couples.