The Howard Cao 'All Look Same' Series compares American celebrity impersonators and their Asian counterparts. Advertising and editorial photographer Howard Cao from the San Francisco-based Cao Studio created this personal project. As the Cao Studio website states the 'All Look Same' project, "explores the influences of celebrity and cultural identity."
Cao headed down to the impersonator capital of the world Las Vegas to find these celebrity dopplegangers. After collaborating with the team at Sugar Digital the project compared the famous impersonator faces of stars such as rocker Axl Rose, country singer Dolly Parton and bombshell Marilyn Manroe.
The eerie similarities help us to examine the question of how truly different are we from each other. This certainly an interesting project that makes you do a double take.
Asian Celebrity Doppelgangers
The Howard Cao 'All Look Same' Series Finds Famous Impersonators
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