Most of us hear this at some point in our lives: “you look just like your father,” or “you have your mother’s smile”, and sometimes it’s hard for us to see what they’re talking about. But it’s there, alright. Quebecois photographer Ulric Collette had the idea of splicing portraits of parents, siblings and grandchildren together (including his own family), showing how these traits get passed across generations:
1. Pascale (45) and David (36), sister and brother
2. Claude (54) and Benoit (23), father and son
3. Ginette (61) and Ismaëlle (12), grandmother and granddaughter
4. Kristof (19) and Madined (41), son and mother
5. Maxim (16) and Juliette (13), sisters
6. Éric (39) and Dany (31), brothers
7. Ismaëlle (12) and Nathan (11), brother and sister
8. Jean-Philippe (29) and Veronique (27), brother and sister
9. Marie-Pier (18) and N’sira (49), daughter and mother
10. Alex and Sandrine (20), twins
11. Amélie (33) and Daniel (60), daughter and father
12. Hâm (64) and Sophea (37), father and daughter
13. Ulric (34) and Justine (34), cousins
14. Ginette (61) and Mathieu (30), mother and son
15. Laurence and Christine (20), twins
16. Karine (29) and Dany (25), sister and brother
17. Christophe (30) and Ulric (29), brothers
18. Denis (53) and William (28), father and son
19. Isabelle (32) and Amélie (33), sisters
20. Marie-Andrée (55) and Claudette (81), daughter and mother
