Crazy Portraits of Real Life Doppelgangers

Dec. 17, 2012

We’ve all had the experience of walking down the street and spotting a person who looks just like someone we know, only to realize — often too late for it not to be completely awkward — that we’re absoultely wrong. Or maybe you frequently find yourself the subject of a case of mistaken identity. For his black-and-white portrait series I’m Not a Look-Alike! Canadian photographer François Brunelle shot sets of unrelated people whose faces were surprisingly similar, but who were usually meeting each other for the first time. Click through a slideshow of our favorites, and head over to PetaPixel for even more uncanny photos of real-life lookalikes.

Photo credit: François Brunelle