Corey Arnold

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Corey Arnold (born March 25, 1976) is an American fine art, documentary, and commercial photographer and commercial fisherman, based in Portland, Oregon. His work explores man's relationship with the natural world, animals, and environmental issues with a primary focus on the Alaskan wilderness. [1] [2] Since 2002 he has photographed his life at sea while working as a Bering Sea crab fisherman and during his summers as a captain of a Bristol Bay sockeye salmon fishing boat in Alaska. [3] [4]

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Early life and education

Arnold was born in Vista, California, and grew up there. He has discussed the positive influence of his father, an avocado farmer, sport fisherman, and a photography enthusiast. [2] Arnold and his father fished together throughout Arnold's childhood, [5] [6] including going to Alaska in the summers where Arnold first witnessed the Alaskan commercial fishing industry. [7]

Arnold attended Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona and earned his BFA in Photography at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California. [8]

Career

After graduating from college, Arnold decided to find work in Alaskan fisheries and photograph his experiences. He has said, "The sea is a great mystery to me. You never know what might show up in the net, pot, or hook. I love to photograph the creatures that we encounter: seabirds, marine mammals, octopus, the waves, the weather and the men and woman who live for it. I want give the viewer a visceral experience of what fish-work is all about. I also aim to educate the public about where our food comes from and talk about ways that commercial fishing and environmentalism can co-exist." [2] This body of work became Fish-Work, an ongoing photography project documenting Arnold's experiences of life at sea. [2]

Two years into his career as a Bering Sea fisherman, the Discovery Channel show Deadliest Catch began filming. Arnold appears in Season Two of Deadliest Catch, and one of his photographs ran on a billboard in Times Square advertising the show. [5] [9]

His photographs have been exhibited widely and published in The New Yorker , National Geographic , The Paris Review , Time , The New York Times , California Sunday Magazine , Harper's , Outside , Esquire , The Guardian , and Juxtapoz , among others. [10]

Awards and grants

Published books

Two books on Arnold's work have been published by Nazraeli Press: a 2011 monograph entitled Fish-Work: The Bering Sea and a 2011 titled Fishing with My Dad 1978–1995. [12]

Personal life

Arnold has worked seasonally as a commercial fisherman in Alaska since 1995, including seven years of crabbing in the Bering Sea aboard the f/v Rollo. [2] He now captains a commercial gillnetter, harvesting wild and sustainable sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska while living seasonally in an abandoned salmon cannery complex called Graveyard Point. [13]

Arnold is a vocal opponent to the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska. [14] [15]

Arnold's cat, Kitty, has been featured in his photographs and was on board the f/v Rollo for two Bering Sea crab seasons. [3] [16] Arnold has said, "She would climb around in the maze of stacked crab pots on deck stalking seabirds. I caught her sneaking up on an eagle that was 5 times her size once, so after that we decided to lock her up in eagle country. She was almost too fearless. She'd come out on deck and stand under dangling 800-pound crab pots. Now she's fat, sleeps all day, and destroys my power cords when she's hungry." [3] He has said that his photograph "Kitty and Horse Fisherman" is "probably the defining photo of my career. It captures a bit of everything I'm interested in as a photographer: The relationship between humans and animals, life at sea, and a bit of strangeness that leaves you with unanswered questions." [2]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Filson Life – Fish-Work: An Interview with Commercial Fisherman and Photographer Corey Arnold". Filson. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 "Feature: An Interview with Corey Arnold". Juxtapoz Magazine. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  4. ↑ Traff, Thea (August 21, 2014). "Gone Fishing". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  5. 1 2 Newman, Jesse (January 21, 2013). "Eat, Sleep, Fish, Click". Lens Blog. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Wonder and Violence on the Bering Sea". Feature Shoot. May 8, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Jaime Lowe Interviews Corey Arnold". Daylight Books. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  8. ↑ "Corey Arnold biography – Richard Heller Gallery". richardhellergallery.com. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  9. ↑ "Episode 10: Corey Arnold: Photographer/Commercial Fisherman, PT. 1". Backdrop. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  10. ↑ Photographer, Corey Arnold-. "Press & Awards | Corey Arnold – Photographer". coreyfishes.com. Retrieved August 17, 2019.
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  14. ↑ Arnold, Corey (March 29, 2018). "The Secret Lives of Commercial Fishermen". Outside Online. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  15. ↑ "Juxtapoz Wild: Corey Arnold". Juxtapoz Magazine. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
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