About

 

Multimedia artist from Brazil, working mainly with documentary photography, film and scoring experimental short films.

As a freelancer, Dezan produced photos and videos for channels like The Washington Post, AJ+, The New York Times, The Intercept and Popular Front. Worked for 5 years as a filmmaker at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, based in Washington DC.

Co-directed the documentary ‘My Blood Is Red’, awarded in 5 international film festivals in 2020. Launched his first photo book ‘When I Hear That Trumpet Sound’ in 2021, which got invited to be part of the permanent photo book archive of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome, Italy). In 2025 published the book ‘On This Side of the Wall’ in collaboration with Farpa Agency, documenting the prison system in Latin America. His ongoing art project ‘Insomnia’ was exhibited in the USA, Italy and Brazil.

Member of Farpa agency.

IG: @thiagodezan

Photo by Eduardo Manfré