Como SERhumano

About us

Two journeys, one practice of listening.

Journalism, photography and decades of practice in human narratives.

Retrato de Thais Itaqui

01 · Journalist · Founder

Thais Itaqui

Thais Itaqui is a human-rights journalist in Brazil and an advocate for emotional health. She produced documentaries and major reports for nearly 20 years at TV Globo, working on Profissão Repórter and Globonews. She founded Como SERhumano, an audiovisual and educational production company grounded in the concept of Human Sustainability.

With graduate studies in Neuroscience, Positive Psychology and Mindfulness, she also created the project "A Gente por Dentro: we need to talk about ourselves", bringing emotional health to different formats and platforms and reinforcing the importance of human connection, speaking and listening. TEDx Speaker (2024/2025), she works as a speaker, creative-process facilitator, screenwriter and director of documentaries and series.

TEDx Talks

Retrato de Luis Paes

02 · Director of Photography

Luis Paes

Photographer, journalist, documentarian and storyteller through images. For more than 30 years he has moved between documentary gaze and human narrative, with a journey that began on the São Paulo coast and was consolidated at Brazil's largest broadcaster, TV Globo.

Creator of the concept of Restorative Photography — inspired by Attention Restoration Theory, developed by environmental psychologists Rachel and Stephen Kaplan at the University of Michigan — he investigates the relationships between image, nature, perception and human regeneration.

At Como SERhumano he leads cinematography across the studio's audiovisual projects, building visual narratives that weave aesthetics, nature and human experience.