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Mali Azima had an epiphany that she would becpme a photographer while shooting pictures of her friends in the makeshift studio of her high school photography class. Then all of a sudden people were always giving her cameras. She enrolled in a college known for its fine arts, yet, being a quadruple Sagittarius, she took as many fine art classes as she could. With every semester, there was a new career pursuit, sometimes two, until finally, she landed on fashion design - another epiphany, or maybe it was more like "I have done this before." Fashion proved to be long and lonely for the Sagittarius, especially one that was enraptured by philosophy, history and other difficult reads, so she moved on to the faster paced Neiman Marcus Advertising during a time when photographers like Richard Avedon were shooting the The Art of Fashion. Although the exposure could not be beat, she became ready for something more hands on, and fell into a crash course tutaledge by the lauded interior designer, Paul Garzotto. He was a perfect mentor for her, making her read Edith Wharton’s, The Decoration of Houses, and suddenly, within months, she photographed an ad for Paul’s store, and the rest is history. Clients came looking for her. Her first editorial shoot was of Michelle Nussbaumer’s house in Dallas. Mali has worked with numerous talented, gifted, and gracious people, in many different disciplines, always gaining guidance and support along the way, giving her the feeling that either, this is bigger than her, or that this is the way the world works to gently guide you to your destiny. Her true gift is in capturing honest gestures of beauty, energy, and vitality.