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I love taking pictures and having my daughter's photo taken (mostly by me as photographers are crazy expensive and rightly so). In most cases when a family is having their picture taken they are all sitting together smiling and thinking what a wonderful Christmas card the photo will make or where the picture will fit on the wall. However, if you are having photographer/Artist, Ulric Collette photograph you and your family the pictures yo will get will be unlike most of the others hanging in your house.
Collette takes a picture of two closely related people (siblings, parents/children) and merges them in the middle. This shows the differences and similarities of the two family members, some more outstanding than others. The portraits in my opionion look the best when both the subjects are adult as the size of their faces line up better and look more "natural". As I am always hearing how much I look like my sisters and parents I would LOVE to be a subject for this guy. Perhaps then I will finally start to see what others already tell me... or perhaps I will disagree even more because the differences will be more apparent.
So Sisters! If you are reading this... Find this guy and get him to do our next family photo session. I hear he is from Canada.
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Information on Collette taken from Shine:
Collette's "Genetic Portrait" series, began in 2008. "I was trying other things with a picture of me and a picture of my son and this happened." Instead of aging his son using his own features as he intended, the result was a fascinating mash-up of two faces that share much of the same DNA. He posted the image on the photo sharing website Flickr, and it went viral. "I started using pictures of other family members and the project took off from there."
His latest series of images will be on display from October 2 to October 28 at the Centaur Theater's Seagram Art Gallery in Montreal.
