The Twins Project by Julie de Waroquier, France. Picture: Julie de Waroquier/Rex features Source: Supplied
- In pictures: Seeing double
- French photographer used social media to source her subjects
- 'Twins represent everything that is not rational but that however exists'
WHEN a photographer needed as many sets of twins as possible for a photo project she headed straight to Europe's biggest annual gathering of twins in Brittany.
When a photographer needed as many sets of twins as possible for a photo project she headed straight to Europe's biggest annual gathering of twins in Brittany.
Although the festival proved a success, to ensure she had a varied range of subjects Julie de Waroquier also tracked down subjects through social media and word-of-mouth.
The photographer from Lyon then shot the siblings side-by-side in ethereal settings in a series entitled Chimeras.
Julie, 23, explains: 'Chimeras or The Twins Project is a series of portraits of twins of all ages and from all kinds of backgrounds.
'Most of them were done during Summer 2011, during which I travelled to meet my models.
The Twins Project by Julie de Waroquier, France. Picture: Julie de Waroquier/Rex features
'I got many contacts by publishing online that I was looking for twins for a photography project. Then, by word of mouth.
'I kept on asking everyone if they knew some twins that would agree to be models for my project. I travelled to photograph and meet all these people near their living place.
'I went to the 'Festival des Deux et plus', which is a fair in France that gathers twins from all European countries every August.
The Twins Project by Julie de Waroquier, France. Picture: Julie de Waroquier/Rex features
She photographed the twins of varying ages standing against a variety of backgrounds - although the younger babies just sat on the ground.
'Twins have always fascinated me, and not only because I have a twin brother, they are almost magic, and yet they are real.
'Indeed, the fact that two people look exactly the same whereas they are not the same person is astonishing. It is like a real dream, or like a miracle.
'In some past or present civilisations, twins are even considered as gods... or as monsters. I thus wanted to photograph these twins in order to question how our society considers what is amazing and surprising in general.
The Twins Project by Julie de Waroquier, France. Picture: Julie de Waroquier/Rex features
'The question that is raised through these pictures could consequently be: nowadays, how do we perceive the things that we can't understand?
'Which place do we leave for dreams and surprising realities?
'In my series, twins represent everything that is not rational but that however exists.'
Sylvia and Alicia, St Cast / The Twins Project by Julie de Waroquier, France. Picture: Julie de Waroquier/Rex features
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