I'm Manny Espinoza, a fine-art-trained commercial photographer in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Monterey, California. For more than thirty years I've photographed the Monterey Peninsula's businesses, buildings, plates, and people: from neighborhood restaurants and custom home builders to Adobe, Apple, McLaren, and Sotheby's.
As Art and Creative Director and a photographer for 65º Magazine, I spend as much time thinking about how images live on a page as how they're made in camera. That editorial eye — and a decade spent teaching Photoshop and Illustrator — shapes every commercial assignment I take. In 2026 alone, my photographs have run in Fast Company, Travel + Leisure, the New York Post, Cottages & Gardens and Robb Report. The San Francisco Chronicle profiled me in 2017 as a guide to Monterey County, calling me "both a chronicler and creator of local culture," and Latino Leaders Magazine featured my business in 2022. See the published work.
The work is shot on the 102-megapixel Fujifilm GFX 100 II and finished in-house on a 64-inch Epson, which means the same person composes the frame, edits the file, and — when the project calls for it — makes the print. No lab. No handoffs. No surprises.
If your organization is on the Peninsula, there's a good chance we've already been in the same room. Let's make something worth hanging.
Creative Director · 65º Magazine — @carmelsphotographer
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