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SM Piotrowski

photographer, zine-maker, librarian

About

SM Piotrowski is a photographer, writer, and librarian from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, now living and working in Athens, Georgia. Stacey has been active in the zine community for over 25 years and currently produces two perzines, Phases of the Moon and Moonshot, and a monthly photozine called Hold Still. Her writing has also been published in Behind the Zines, Burnaway, and Georgia Library Quarterly.Stacey has a passion for concert photography and her images have appeared in the Athens Flagpole, Immersive Atlanta, and Impose Magazine, as well as a multitude of independent music blogs. Her photos have been featured in album artwork for musicians including Quintron, Linqua Franca, WesdaRuler, and Eureka California.Stacey received her BFA from the University of Georgia and her MLIS from Valdosta State University. She works as a cataloging librarian with the UGA Special Collections Libraries and would be thrilled to accept your zine donation to our community zine collection.

[CV available upon request]

Okay, now that I’ve proven that I can write professionally about myself in the third person (ugh), here’s the fun stuff: I’m an Aries sun / Scorpio moon / Virgo rising and I feel the tension of this strange & conflicting trinary in every aspect of my being. I live with three rescue cats. I’m a recovering Catholic but can’t shake my nostalgia for the comfort of its weirdo superstitious rituals & pageantry. I don’t have a driver’s license. I went hitchhiking one summer and all I got was the most amazing birthdaughter in the entire world. My first camera was a neon pink Concord 110EF that my parents gave me for my First Communion. I’ve been photographing concerts since I was a teenager and at every show, I am still existentially torn between experiencing vs. documenting. I’m incurably sarcastic & insufferably romantic. I hate writing about my work because I have always felt that I make because I must and that’s all there is to it.

Contact

To reach me via email, please fill out: the contact form.I sell my zines on Ko-fi, or you can contact me for wholesale, cash, or trade inquiries. My zines are also carried by Antiquated Future, Behind the Zines Distro, Bizarro-Wuxtry (Athens, GA), Crapandemic, Quimby’s (Chicago), and Tangent Distro (Pittsburgh); and held by the libraries on this list.Prints of my photography are available upon request; please get in touch for details and pricing. I am committed to making my art affordable and accessible and am open to considering trades or sliding-scale pricing on a case-by-case basis.I post my photography on Tumblr. I track my reading on LibraryThing and my listening on Last.fm. My Facebook and Instagram accounts are mostly dormant.I write a very infrequent email newsletter called once in a blue moon. You can sign up for it here. (Please note, if you were previously subscribed to my TinyLetter, you will have to sign up again via this form, because I wasn’t aware TinyLetter was shutting down until it was too late.)

News

Mar. 7, 2025. Hold Still vol. 1, no. 4 (Cancer), is available for sale via Ko-fi (or contact me). As zinesters the world over have said throughout time immemorial: "Sorry this is so late." I still intend to finish this series... stay tuned & thank you for your patience!October 26, 2024. Hold Still vol. 1, no. 3 (Gemini), is available for sale via Ko-fi (or contact me).September 21, 2024. Finally added some photo galleries to this site :)September 12, 2024. Subscriptions to the first volume of Hold Still are now available for sale via Ko-fi (or contact me). Purchasing a subscription gets you all published issues of vol. 1 as of the time of your order, and then you will receive the remaining issues in the mail as they are printed. Only 5 available!September 11, 2024. I have an essay about watching Doctor Who with (and without) men in Cathode Ray Mission #3, edited by KM Ratticus. Copies are available from Behind the Zines Distro, Chicago Comics, and Quimby's (Chicago).