SAZELI JALAL was born and raised in Singapore, where he majored in interior design at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. Self-taught, he accidentally found his photographic career when he worked for the Germany-based artists’ network Artyfakt - now based in Singapore - and contributed to the group’s activities in Germany, Austria, Indonesia and Singapore.

Sazeli's influence in art, architecture and photography has pushed his boundaries in other areas as well such as installation art and even collaborations with film directors and made several short films.  One of them namely was part of the MDA Panasonic Digital Film Fiesta 2006. In early 2007, Sazeli's first solo exhibition entitled "foreign bodies" was held in Alliance Francaise , Sapporo Japan.

His works have been featured and he has been reviewed in Mooncruise.com (inter-national photo-magazine site), Noovo magazine (Spain), Alt-Neuöttinger Anzeiger Newspaper (Germany), Nikon focus magazine (Singapore) and Grain photo Asia Culture magazine (Singapore). Suria, Mediacorp television series "Gen.Y.Org" has featured Sazeli for being one of the young talents under 30 in Singapore. Recently in a media online webfilm Awan-Awan.com, series "Kau Siapa Sia?" featured Sazeli as being one of the outstanding personalities in the Singapore Malay media industry.

Sazeli has since photographed for major publications including Cosmopolitan, Solitaire, Men's folio, Women's Weekly and Cleo. He has also shot campaigns for ESP Guitars (Japan), FashionLab (Singapore), Jill Lowe International (Singapore), Francisca SS09 (Singapore), Elohim SS09, AW09, SS10, AW10 (Singapore) and Joss Jewellery SS09 (New Zealand).