After gaining a degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, Indiana, he specialised in photography at CalArts – the California Institute of the Arts. Since 1994 he has lived between New York, Los Angeles and Milan, where he works with the main design and architecture magazines like ‘Abitare’ and ‘Domus’. His work has been displayed in venues including the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, at the Canadian Center of Architecture, Montréal, at the Casa degli Atellani, Milan, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, the 14th International Architecture Biennale of Venice and at the Chicago Architecture Biennale. Fazel is a visiting professor at the San Francisco Art Institute.