Thiago Dezan is a Brazilian multimedia artist, working mainly with documentary photography, film and soundtrack for experimental short films.

Dezan is co-founder of Brazil’s largest independent media channel, NINJA. As a freelancer, Dezan has produced photos and videos for channels such as The Washington Post, AJ+, The New York Times, The Intercept and Popular Front. In addition, he worked for 5 years as a filmmaker at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, based in Washington DC, and co-directed the documentary ‘My Blood Is Red’, which won awards at 5 international film festivals in 2020.

In 2021, Dezan launched his first photo book ‘When I Hear That Trumpet Sound’, which was invited to be part of the permanent archive of photo books at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rome, Italy). Also in 2021, he was named Photographer of the Year by EyeEm magazine. His ongoing art project ‘Insomnia’ has been exhibited in New York City (2021) and Rome (2023).