COREY ARNOLD PHOTOGRAPHY
Posted on 07. Apr, 2009 by ART BATTERY GROUP in THE ART HEADS SPEAK OUT
Corey Arnold is a photographer and Alaskan commercial fisherman. During the winter, he can be found board F/V Rollo in the Bering Sea and recently catching salmon in Bristol Bay, The off season is filled with travel, gallery exhibitions, magazine and ad photography assignments 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. Since 2003, he’s been documenting the crab fishery in the Bering Sea. Most recently he was nominated for the Aperture West Book Prize, the Santa Fe Prize for Photography , and named one of the PDN’s 30 for 2009. The work has been featured in The Paris Review, Juxtapoz, Rolling Stone, Artweek, and the Sunday Telegraph Magazine(UK).
In 2005, he received an American Scandinavian Foundation grant to photograph the fishermen and whalers of Northern Norway.
