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
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.
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.
Cool idea, but like most of these people don’t look alike at all. Completely different noses, jaws, chins, eyes, etc.
I think he’s going for a more subtle similarity. Like they look like they could be related but necessarily twins.
Very cool, I wonder how he finds the matches.
It’s Canada we all look the same buddy .
He’s not your buddy, guy.
He’s not your guy, friend.
He’s not your guy, friend.
He’s not your friend, buddy.
He’s not your friend, bub .
He’s not your bub, pal.
Very cool and all, but why are all the doppelgangers in deep love with each other?
If I was sure I wasn’t related to them, banging my doppelganger would be a very interesting experience.
And this illustrates a problem of using facial recognition databases as a security measure. False positives lead to false convictions.
Would be an interesting test set for categorising the accuracy of such software.
Two people that look alike but aren’t related. That’s what I’m talking about!
A few of them look so much alike, it’s uncanny.
