Have you ever been told that there’s
someone else out there, someone in Buffalo or Tulsa or Paris, France, who looks
like you? Just like you?
I once read that we all have a twin
somewhere. An exact duplicate of ourselves, someone we’ve not met, but who
would knock our socks off if we ever passed on the street.
I always wanted a twin. Someone just my
age, just my size, just my frame of mind. Someone I could pin the blame on when
I got in trouble, someone who would never question the obvious – that I am
funny and smart and pretty - someone who’d know just what I was going to say
and save me the trouble of having to say it if I didn’t feel like talking. A
person who would fill up the space between the rest of the world and me,
protect me from being alone.
That is the opening to the artist
statement that I wrote to accompany my project about identical twins (“The
Space Between”).
Just recently, my sister (the two of us
are beginning to look more and more alike) brought the work of French Canadian
photographer François Brunelle to my attention. He photographs unrelated look-alikes, doppelgangers.
Brunelle’s goal is to find 200 sets, and he travels the world to photograph
them. He doesn’t necessarily match people up; rather, he asks for couples to
submit photos to him. So, if you know your unrelated look-alike, and the two of
you can get together with the photographer, I imagine you, too, could be part
of this project!
Here are a few examples from the series,
which he calls “I’m Not A Look-alike”.
1 comment:
So interesting. Some could really pass for twins, all for siblings at a least. - Frank
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