Rick's Rodeo
Ricardo Cueva at work
Ricardo, somewhere west of nowhere. 2024.

About

Rick's Rodeo is the long way home.

For a decade I made pictures under the name Caveman Photos. It was a useful name while I was learning — raw, exploratory, an archive more than a body of work. What you are looking at now is the work I want to keep.

I name every photograph the way you'd name a portrait — Frank, Mia, Solomon — because each one is a held moment with a personality. A wall has a face. A horizon has a mood. The picture's job is to remember it for you.

Prints ship from Tucson, Arizona. Each one is hand-checked, signed and dated on the verso, and printed on archival paper to outlast the room it hangs in.


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Studio practice

A printed book that also happens to sell prints.

01

Photograph

Medium-format film and a handful of digital bodies. Always handheld, almost always at the wrong time of day on purpose.

02

Edit

Every frame lives on a wall for a week before it's allowed near the catalog. If it survives the morning coffee, it stays.

03

Print

Archival pigment on cotton rag or matte fine art. Hand-trimmed, signed on the verso, sleeved and shipped flat or rolled.