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Strangers: A Bizarre Series of Composite Portraits, Each Made Up of 200 Close-Ups

Photographer Pelle Cass is fond of composites. The set of so-called 'single frame time-lapses' he put together for his Selected People series has gone quite viral.

But his fondness for composite photography doesn't stop at creating overcrowded scenes, he applied the same approach to taking portraits, creating a bizarre (and perhaps a little unsettling) series of portraits called Strangers in the process.

BTS: A Look at How Pelle Cass Creates His Interesting Single-Frame Time-Lapse Shots

Back in early July, we got a chance to share photographer Pelle Cass' intriguing Selected People series with you. For this series, he combines hundreds of exposures to create what amounts to a time-lapse in one frame: showing what a particular location looks like over the course of many hours, but capturing it as a single moment in time.

These Hundred-Photo Composites Take Street Photography to the Next Level

At first glance, photographer Pelle Cass' series Selected People makes it seem like Boston is horribly overcrowded. The streets and squares are flooded with people, some of whom look like they're about to bump into each other without a second thought. And it's not just people, one tree seems to be the favorite spot of every single squirrel in the city.

Of course, once you realize what it is you're looking at, it starts to make a little more sense, because the photos in the series aren't made up of only one exposure, but hundreds of them.