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www.MOSTmag.com || FASHIO N MAG A ZINE || 155ometimes life takes you on a less direct journey towards your destiny than you would imagine. For Amani Faiz, she had always seen herself as a photographer from childhood, when she would dress up her cousin and friends for pretend fashion shoots. But life as a photographer would have to wait as a career in dance would intervene. At age 18 she jetted off to Austria for a stint with the Ballet at Landestheatre in Innsbruck. For the next sixteen years she would travel the world as a dancer, drawing inspiration from exotic locations in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, the U.S., London, Asia, and Europe, ending with a two year stint in Paris.Along the way she rediscovered her passion by taking head shots and portraits for her fellow dancers and performers, and managed to squeeze in three years of studying.Whilst in Paris, Amani began broadening her photography horizons assisting on professional shoots and experimenting with her own style influenced by Camilla Akrans, Peter Lindberg, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. This gave her a solid grounding for a return to Australia to begin her photography career in earnest. Since then her work has been seen in publications online and in print around the world.