Corey Arnold

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Corey Arnold (born March 25, 1976) is an American fine art, documentary, and commercial fisherman based in Portland, Oregon.

With a primary focus on the Alaskan wilderness, his book explores man's relationship with the natural world, animals, and environmental issues.

Since being a Bering Sea crab fisherman and during his summers as the captain of a Bristol Bay sockeye salmon fishing boat in Alaska, he has been photographing his life on sea.

Early life and education

Arnold was born in Vista, California, and grew up there. He has written about his father, an avocado farmer, sport fisherman, and a photographer. Arnold and his father battled together throughout Arnold's childhood, including going to Alaska in the summers, where Arnold first experienced the Alaskan commercial fishing industry.

Arnold earned his BFA in Photography at the Academy of Art University in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Personal life

Arnold has been a commercial fisherman in Alaska since 1995, including seven years of crabbing in the Bering Sea aboard the f/v Rollo. While living seasonally in an abandoned salmon cannery complex named Graveyard Point, he now captained a commercial gillnetter harvesting wild and sustainable sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

Arnold is a vocal critic of Alaska's controversial Pebble Mine.

Arnold's cat, Kitty, has been featured in his photographs, and he was on board the f/v Rollo for two Bering Sea crab seasons. "She'll roll around in the maze of stacked crab pots on deck stalking seabirds," Arnold says. I caught her sneaking up on a 5x her height before, so we decided to lock her up in eagle country. She was almost afraid of being alone. She'd been out on deck and stand under dangling 800-pound crab pots. Now she's fat, sleeps all day, and defames my power cords when she's hungry." "Kitty and Horse Fisherman," the photographer's "probably the defining picture of my career," he has said. It captures a bit of what I'm interested in as a photographer: the relationship between humans and animals, life at sea, and a small amount of oddness that leaves you with unanswered questions."

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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." This body of work became Fish-Work, an ongoing photography project documenting Arnold's experiences of life at sea.

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.

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.

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Awards and grants

• 2017 Pictures of the Year International – 1st Place Feature Photo Story for "Unplugging the Selfie Generation" National Geographic Magazine