Thanks to the flexibility that digital technology offers, Mazlish has been able to establish himself as both an artist and a gallerist in a busy online marketplace.
Mazlish discovered that photography was his chosen medium purely through happenstance. He found an old, but valuable, Nikon camera when he was a young musician in need of money and took it to a camera store in hopes of selling it. The proprietor offered him a newer, but gently used, Nikon in exchange.
This was still in the age of film cameras, but at the beginning of digital technology innovations, so the camera had a digital readout. Mazlish described his enlightenment, “When I started shooting, I tapped into the same deep well of creativity that propelled my music… Because it was film, I’d get contact sheets. I learned to see aesthetically.”