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 with a studio in Riverdale, The Bronx. I shoot portraits, headshots, events, and personal branding — 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 in the room.

I keep sessions efficient by design. Most portrait clients are in and out in under 90 minutes — 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 every package is on the booking page so it's easy to compare.

I shoot weekends in Riverdale, The Bronx and surrounding neighborhoods — Van Cortlandt Park, 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.

How I Work

The session, in three pieces

Two-light institutional standard
Soft key, controlled fill. The lighting is engineered 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 a corporate session differs from a personal-brand session, see the corporate headshots and personal branding photography pages — both cover session length, deliverable count, and per-tier pricing in detail.

Riverdale, Bronx Studio
Outdoor sessions across Van Cortlandt Park + lower Westchester
Weekend Sessions
Saturdays & Sundays — portraits, events, branding
Fast Delivery
48hrs portraits · 5 days events

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