Take 2: Photographer releases second set of amazing portraits of total STRANGERS who look like twins

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.

Tattoos: Nina-Rose Singh and Anna Rubin even have similar tattoos

Strangers: Rudi Kistler, Maurus Oehman, Mannhein, Germany

Could be sisters: Sylvie Gagnon and Caroline Dhavernas, from Montreal

Similar: Izabel Zimmer and Diane Fortin, Montreal

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

Brunelle has studied the human face since he started out as a photographer in 1968, at the age of 18. He said he was 'fascinated by the resemblance between look-alikes.'



'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).'

Look-alikes: Ian Perrreault and Alain Roberge would often get confused

Uncanny: Carl-Ann Mandies and Amanda Millette

Striking: Normand Grenier and Ahmed Galipeau from Montreal

The collection, entitled I'm not a look-alike!, features a range of individuals, sitting or standing side by side.



According to the photographer, the portraits allow him to explore the relationship between the subjects and how they approach their remarkably similar appearances.



Brunelle told MailOnline: 'I found my first subjects simply through people I knew who looked alike.

Then as the media covered my project, more people came forward to take part.'



The photographer continues to look for subjects and is inviting people to come forward so he can reach his lofty goal of 200 couples.



Same face: Alex Bertosik and Victoria Stusiak have strikingly similar eyes

Resemblance: Brunelle said he was 'fascinated by the resemblance between look-alikes'

Europe: William Helsen and Manfred Diez, Mannheim, Germany

I'm not a look-alike: Morgan Bowden and Imogen Rawe, from Bath, England

Grins: Tamara Stomphorst and Sandra Meines, from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, have similar smiles

Mistaken: Carmen Apitzsch and Kerstin Rubin, Mannheim, Germany Brothers: Tudor Radulescu and Patrick Paquet, Montreal, Canada, are in fact not related Friends: Brunelle said he found his first subjects simply through people he knew who looked alike Germans: Maurus Oehman and Rudi Kistler, from Mannhein, Germany







