Dan Cheek

Arizona, 2019 #8x10film #landscapephotography (at Mount Lemmon) https://www.instagram.com/p/B11pQaxgp1B/?igshid=hl31tkgm15p3

Florida, 2017 #8x10film #landscapephotography https://www.instagram.com/p/B08-Uxhgwvs/?igshid=gi0vig6dfkpz

Utah, 2018 #landscapephotography #8x10film #wherewego https://www.instagram.com/p/BzzjSgRABiD/?igshid=1xqkb3b0bwtx6

Always organizing and reorganizing the way I think about my pictures as bodies of work. I think I'm about ready to rethink the last 10 years of work I made about how we experience nature. This work has moved in a multitude of ways and has grown to be a behemoth of a project. One of my goals of grad school was to help put it in some order, but that never happened. So in the heat of an Arizona summer I think it's time to comb back through and see what I come up with. #8x10film #wherewego #landscapephotography https://www.instagram.com/p/BzbjC-mgSyM/?igshid=th692wt6qaap

#awaywarddistraction #4x5film #landscapephotography #largeformatphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/BxnU1b1H7yM/?igshid=8zuii7jsk6t6

Not sure this one makes the cut for this new body of work, but I am still drawn to this image. There are those pictures that keep finding there way to the surface but always end up not quite fitting. #largeformatphotography #8x10film #awaywarddistraction https://www.instagram.com/p/BxflyA7gR1q/?igshid=1a8o0956u5ahf

Tonight is my DJ gig at Surly Wench. Come on down to hear some garage and punk records. (This image has no relation to that at all, just been wanting to get this image on here) #8x10film #largeformatphotography #awaywarddistraction https://www.instagram.com/danielwcheek/p/BxTCPTlgm8X/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3j12zsn7us0p

Hawaii, 2015 #6x7film #awaywarddistraction #landscapephotography #volcano https://www.instagram.com/danielwcheek/p/BxLiiglAHR5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pbpuupqx24tf

#6x7film #awaywarddistraction https://www.instagram.com/danielwcheek/p/Bw52LuJg4Us/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xdg7icnc867f

Havana, Cuba, 2019 #6x7film https://www.instagram.com/danielwcheek/p/BvFkv3tgFBO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jasiuo4kakpy

I've been back in the darkroom working on a new body of work I'm pretty excited about. #6x7film #workinprogress #awaywarddistraction https://www.instagram.com/p/BtRVEnHgLor/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5n9l99hstxxi

My niece Jessika, 2018 #6x7film https://www.instagram.com/p/Bst_nw0FrQb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4cw3jevfqmeq

World's largest land oil rig, Elk City, OK This oil rig was used to dig wells for several underground nuclear tests by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission throughout rural New Mexico and Colorado in the 1960s. The idea of nuclear fracking was soon abandoned and replaced by hydraulic fracking. #8x10film #nucleartesting #fracking https://www.instagram.com/p/BsbNyZbAtXo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9bcll6a1bspl

Empire Ranch, 2018 #6x7film #ilfordhp5 (at Empire Ranch Foundation) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrQ36ZWga6O/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g1tg759b9s7u

Another image that I recently rediscovered in my archive that is speaking to me. Since I've committed to scanning and printing digitally this series I'm able to use images that had issues I was never happy with. This particular image had a distracting amount of lens distortion and a few creases in the negative. #6x7film https://www.instagram.com/p/BrD5FQkHolO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1opc0a171vpud

I've been back to looking at this series again. Images I passed over before look more interesting on review. My work often takes many years to unfold. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqtb4pLAJNm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1pe3sj3d191ym