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True Fiction /ˈtro͞o ˈfikshən/ noun

The concept where figments of imagination become tangible.

True Fiction is a collection of imagined histories told through emotionally grounded images. 
Using Stable Diffusion as both lens and language, I construct visual archives for people who never existed — but whose stories feel strangely familiar.

Gilberto Copaldi, Amara Petrov, and Rin each invite us into a different kind of memory:
a Vatican archive from the
1940's, a vanished Soviet photographer’s legacy,

a series of haunting portrait studies.
 

None of it ever happened—and yet all of it exists,
anchored in emotional authenticity inside a fictional frame.
Because sometimes, the stories we invent tell us more than the ones we inherit.


 

copyright Gil Cope 2025
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