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, with plans for an upcoming monthly photozine tentatively titled Hold Still. Her writing has also been published in Behind the Zines, Burnaway, and Georgia Library Quarterly.She is passionate about 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 work has 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.
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.I post my photography on Tumblr and Instagram. Please get in touch if you’re interested in prints of any of my images. Robots DNI.I track my reading on LibraryThing and my listening on Last.fm.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
July 14-19, 2024. I’m attending Tony White’s Rare Book School course, The History of Artists’ Books since 1950, at the Grolier Club in New York City.March 30, 2024. I’ll be at the Fluke Zine & Mini-Comics Festival in Athens, Georgia. (I’m not officially tabling, but will be wandering around as an attendee with zines in my bookbag if anyone wants to trade.)March 2024. My article, “Tips for Cataloging Zines,” will be published in Behind the Zines #17, edited by Billy McCall. Copies are available via Etsy and BtZ.com.February 20, 2024. I’m co-hosting a zine-making workshop with Kathryn Manis, Science-Fiction + Advocacy: Zine-Making Workshop in Honor of Author Michael Bishop, at the UGA Special Collections Libraries in Athens, Georgia.July-December 2023. Some of my photos and ephemera from Spillage House are included in the exhibit, House Party: Digging Into House Show History in Athens, curated by Ryan Lewis at the UGA Special Collections Libraries in Athens, Georgia.