Manuelo is a Spain-born, Portugal-based visual artist working with photography since the early 2000s. He studied communication and photography in Spain, taught in Prague and worked on assignments across Europe. In 2014, he relocated to Lisbon to focus on his personal work, setting up his studio in Alfama to practice slow and intentional art.

His photography is driven by existential curiosity about the human experience and the bigger mystery of existence itself. Through the lens, he looks for the universal stories that connect us beneath our differences, the hidden patterns and symbolic meanings in life, and those moments that remind us how extraordinary it is that we are here at all.

He approaches photography with a painterly instinct, treating the camera's viewfinder as his canvas. This way of seeing led to Taografia, where he dives into weathered surfaces to compose photographs that resemble landscape paintings — a process of co-creation with nature, and somehow with mystery itself, that has become his signature style.