Brian Deutzman is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. A native South Floridian, his images underscore the contrast between the region’s natural beauty and its urban excess – sports cars, nightclubs, and jumbled skylines collide with serene ocean vistas and wildlife. Each subject is composed in a way that borders on abstraction, allowing the viewer to impose their own narratives on images that, like the region itself, exist on the threshold of reality and dreams.

Deutzman graduated from the University of Central Florida with a BFA in Film Production and currently works in the film industry. Cinematic techniques learned on set and in the editing room are central to his artistic practice, allowing otherwise inaccessible locations to be photographed and manipulated with a high degree of technical sophistication. He specializes in underwater and urban nightlife photography, using modified lenses and improvised tools to take advantage of these environments’ unusual light characteristics. Each photo is printed on cutting-edge fine art media that ensures each printed image is just as vibrant as a projected movie.

In 2013, his photos of classic cars won the Award for Photographic Excellence at the Salisbury House Concours d’Elegance. The next year, he received a Borscht Corporation filmmaking grant, creating an experimental film featuring historical Miami buildings and a documentary about a local hip-hop group’s relationship to their city. These films went on to screen at the 2014 Borscht Film Festival and, in 2015, at the Satellite Art Fair during Art Basel Miami Beach.

In 2016, he was selected as a South Florida “Ambassador Artist” for that year’s Miami Home Design and Remodeling Show, where his work was presented alongside that of the region’s top architects and interior designers.