Thursday 27 March 2014

Corey Arnold

Corey is a photographer and Alaskan commercial fisherman. From 2003-2010 he worked as a deckhand on the Bering Sea crabber f/v Rollo and more recently, captains a wild salmon gillnetting operation in Bristol Bay, Alaska.  The off season is filled with travel, gallery exhibitions, magazine and ad photography assignments mixed with a bit of backyard gardening, cat maintenance, and skateboarding in Portland, Oregon.

He is currently working on a life long project entitled FISH-WORK which chronicles the commercial fishing lifestyle throughout the world. In 2010, a PEW foundation commission led to the Fish-Work Europe series, photographing aboard fishing vessels in eight European countries. in 2005, he received an American Scandinavian Foundation grant to photograph the fishermen and whalers of Northern Norway.  Corey was recently 

It is very interesting how his work always about fishy stuff. even thou not every single piece of Corey work is about fish, he likes to take photograph of animal but how it present the animal is very interesting because he treat the animal as human in the form of photo.










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  1. Corney was my classmate at university! Extremely talented and hardworking guy. I'm glad you wrote about him.

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