Piotr Cieplak is an author, academic and award-winning filmmaker. In fiction, he is the author of Zofia Nowak's Book of Superior Detecting (Renegade, 2025). In non-fiction, Piotr wrote Death, Image, Memory: the genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath in photography and documentary film (Palgrave, 2017) and edited Familiar Faces: memory, photography and Argentina’s disappeared (Goldsmiths/MIT Press, 2024).

Piotr is also the writer/director of Memory Cards (UK, 2015), The Faces We Lost (UK, 2017), Closed Casket (UK, 2020), Do You Remember That Year? (UK, 2021) and (Dis)Appear (UK, 2023). His films have screened at international festivals around the world, on TV, and received numerous awards. Piotr lives in London and is Professor of Creative Practice and Visual Cultures at the University of Sussex. He is represented @watsonlittle