The Photographer

About Emmanuel

Emmanuel Fuentes — Portrait Photographer NYC

I started Fuentes Studio with one belief: that the right portrait can change the trajectory of a career. Not because it's magic — but because first impressions are real, and a photograph is often the first thing someone knows about you.

I'm a New York City photographer based in Riverdale, The Bronx, and every session I shoot happens outdoors in natural light — no studio, no strobes. Headshots, portraits, and team days: the work that helps people show up online and in print the way they actually want to be seen. Every booking includes a short pre-session call so nothing about the day gets decided on the sidewalk.

I keep sessions short by design — 20 minutes for a Stroll & Shoot, 30 for an Outdoor Headshot — and the retouched gallery arrives within 48 hours. The work is never rushed, but the process is always respectful of your time. Current pricing for both sessions is on the booking page so it's easy to compare, and sessions are booked at least seven days out.

I shoot Saturdays and Sundays in Riverdale, The Bronx and surrounding neighborhoods — Van Cortlandt Park, Spuyten Duyvil, Kingsbridge, Yonkers, Bronxville, Hastings-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Tuckahoe, Eastchester, Scarsdale, Pelham, and Mount Vernon. Anywhere within about a 15-minute drive of Riverdale (no tolls), I'll come to you.

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How I Work

The session, in three pieces

Natural light, chosen not fought

Open shade, reflected fill, and the right hour of the day. The light is scouted and shaped on location to render skin and tailoring the way LinkedIn and bar-directory thumbnails actually compress them — so the image still reads as you at 200 pixels.

Pre-session wardrobe call

Every booking includes a written wardrobe brief and a short call before session day, covering color, layering, glasses, and the platform-by-platform crop spec. Nothing gets decided in the room.

Retouching that holds up at scale

Skin, eyes, and stray hair are corrected — never reshaped. The file you receive is the file your firm's bio page, podcast booker, and the SEC filing reader all see, and it is built to read consistently across every one.

For the deeper breakdown of how the 20-minute Stroll & Shoot differs from the 30-minute Outdoor Headshot, see the mini sessions and LinkedIn headshots pages — both cover session length, deliverables, and pricing in detail.

Riverdale & Van Cortlandt Park

Outdoor sessions across The Bronx + lower Westchester

Weekend Sessions

Saturdays & Sundays only — portraits and team days

Fast Delivery

Retouched gallery back in 48 hours

What those portraits are used for: a partner promotion announcement on a firm's news page, a Series A pitch deck that closed in seven days, a board-bio refresh circulated to 14 directors, the bar-directory thumbnail a litigator uses for the next decade, the LinkedIn frame that became a recruiter's first read of a senior candidate, and the press kit a podcast booker dropped into show art without resizing. The work is built for the place it actually lives — and the file naming, sizing, and crop spec are tuned to those surfaces by the time the gallery arrives.

My Approach

“A great portrait doesn't change who you are. It shows who you already are — at your most composed, confident, and capable.”

— Emmanuel Fuentes

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