They may look like twins but the subjects of  these black and white portraits are not even related, if you can believe  it.

Photographer Francois Brunelle is  'fascinated' by look-alikes or 'doppelgangers' and has set out to shoot 200  pictures of couples who, despite not sharing the same blood, have strikingly  similar faces.

The Canadian snapper's ambitious project began in North America when he photographed  two acquaintances who looked as though they were separated at birth.

He is now broadening out the unique  assignment, scoping for doubles from around the world to create an international  exhibit and a book.

'It is not about looking like famous people,'  he said. 'The project is about looking like other people.

'The fact that two persons, totally unrelated  to each other, sometimes born in different countries, share the same physical  appearance is really the essence of (it).'

 

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