In Maracaçumé - MA is a small city surrounded by Amazon forest, one of the kids hobbies is to gather at a parking lot every weekend night and do tricks with their motorcycles. Photo @thiagodezan
Print Shoot Repeat, or PSR, holds a 3D print AR style rifle and a Tinck Arms X16 rifle. Photo by @thiagodezan
It's 3am in Washington DC. Anything can happen. Photo by @thiagodezan
A member of MS13 stays at the infirmary cell at a maximum security prison in El Salvador due to malnutrition, such problems are common due to the lack of food, bad quality of the air, overcrowding, wide spread tuberculosis and lack of general hygiene in El Salvador's prison system. Photo by @thiagodezan
A member of Comando Vermelho (Red Command) gang poses for a photo with his AK style shotgun in one of their look out spots in a favela downtown Rio de Janeiro. @thiagodezan
In an attempt to curb the advance of narco-trafficking in the territories of Michoacán, indigenous people and small farmers in the state took over the matter into their own hands, creating militia groups called Autodefensa to fight the cartels. Photo by @thiagodezan
Inside an abandoned building close to the docks in Rio de Janeiro, a small community of addicts live by their own rules. Inside make shift wooden rooms, all kinds of business can happen to finance their addiction. In the photo, a dweller of this community smokes crack out of a pipe. Photo by @thiagodezan
In this video @thiagodezan shares his thoughts on photography, art and life, one bing inseparable from the other. Be Honest, Be Honorable.
In this video narrated by Erri de Luca, @thiagodezan shows us how he spend some of his time in Italy.
Brazil is 2 different countries. Gt to know a bit of this duality in @thiagodezan video shot in Rio de Janeiro. Voice over by Ariano Suassuna.
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. Insomnia will be on view at PAC project room from November 26.
Thiago Dezan
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. Insomnia will be on view at PAC project room from November 26.
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