Rosita's, a popular restaurant in Laredo, once had a very artistic cook. Morris Malakoff, now a filmmaker and photojournalist, spent some time in Rosita's kitchen dishing up Tex-Mex food for hungry customers. It wasn't a bad job, it just wasn't the right job for Malakoff. "I knew I wanted to do more with my life," he tells us.
After a few years, Malakoff left the restaurant and joined a design center. Sounds more creative, right? Ah, not so much. "My job was assembling and moving furniture, hanging pictures, shipping ... It was the kind of work that required no real thought." Still not the right job.
"After several months of this, I quit and took the leap into photography." That, finally, was the right job.
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