Lots of new work now on my site in the Wolf Tide, Arcticness, Human Animals, and Graveyard Point porfolios.  My first big update in years!

I’ve been at work on a new series called Wolf Tide for the past several months.  The series will premiere at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica (Bergamot Station), opening night is February 25th 2012, from 5-7 pm sharp. The gallery has doubled in size since my LA show back in 2007, and I’ll be showing many very large never before seen images.  Hope you can make it, and feel free to spread the word! I’ve also done some updating on my website and included a preview of Wolf Tide and new work in the Human Animals section.

I was commissioned by Audubon magazine last year to document the Corvina and shrimp fishermen of El Golfo de Santa Clara, Sonora, Mexico.  We went in search of the people that fish amongst the elusive Vaquita, better known as the next cetacean heading for extinction since the loss of the China’s Yangze River Dolphin in 2007.  In short, very few of the fishermen we met and spoke with had ever seen a Vaquita in their lives, yet environmental leaders helped the government pass buyback programs which permanently confiscated fishing permits and presented other incentives to reduce fishing, including swapping out nets for money in order to protect the inevitable extinction of the Vaquita.  Published in the Nov/Dec 2011 issue of Audubon Magazine, this is the story of the fishermen of El Golfo de Santa Clara vs. the ghost dolphin with the eternal smile. Please enjoy the attached outtakes from our journey.

Heather Treadway is a multi-talented fashion designer, musician, dancer, etc. from Portland, Oregon.  In the fashion realm, she specializes in designing and sewing unique handmade capes. I spent a weekend in Eastern Oregon near the Painted Hills and Blue Basin road tripping and photographing Heather wearing some of her recent designs.  You may also know her as the stand up percussionist from the band Explode into Colors (rest in peace).  Buy her stuff on Etsy or email her to make a custom order.  She’ll make you something great.

I’m just home from a two week road trip to San Diego and back.  My good friend Greg Hennes of Antler an Co.  shot this little iphone shot of me planking an old oak trip in Big Sur. I love that place.

I recently had the honor of photographing one of the most renowned tea makers in the world, Steven Smith for the Wall Street Journal. Mr Smith is the founder of both Stash and Tazo Tea and has moved onto his own high end brand, Steven Smith Teamaker. Nice to have him in the fine city of Portland.  The story went public on Dec 24, 2012.  Here’s a link to the story online.

My good friend Greg Hennes of Antler and Co. has teamed up with Grave Bonney of Design Sponge and Matt from Wood and Faulk to create the Portland Bazaar.  It’s maybe the best gathering of small high end handcrafted goods from Portland, Oregon I’ve ever seen. Company genres include spirits, books, clothes, food, and way more.  Time to bring home something hand made from antler, walnut, or leather this weekend, pack it in a box and make someone happy.  Screw Walmart, and buy your goods local from people that work hard here in Portland.  I’ll be signing copies of my book Fish-Work: The Bering Sea at the Ampersand booth at 2pm on Sunday so come by and say hello!  Hey, Poler Stuff will be there too!

The Portland Bazaar
December 10 and 11th, 2011 9-6pm

@ Sandbox Studio
420 NE 9th Avenue
Portland, Oregon

www.portlandbazaar.com

I was interviewed by the Italian writer Matteo Bordone for Italian Rolling Stone last spring.  This was sort of a 4 year follow up after since they did a larger feature on my Fish-Work Bering Sea project back in 2007.  I have no idea what it says, but I know it’s about my new salmon life at Graveyard Point in Bristol Bay. I think with Euro Zone meltdown happening, stories about escaping into the wilds of Alaska are becoming more appealing to editors.  Here is the tearsheet from the June 2011 issue (still catchin’ up!).

Fish-Work: The Bering Sea was recently named one of the best photo books of the year by American Photo Magazine. Thanks!

In celebration of, how about free domestic shipping and discounted international shipping on all signed copies purchased through my little web store before Dec 10? Makes a great stocking stuffer I’ve heard.

 

 

For those that don’t know me well, I’m not just a photographer, I’m a commercial fisherman. Every summer I spend a couple months running a commercial Sockeye salmon set net operation at the mouth of the Kvichak River in Bristol Bay, Alaska. For the past four seasons, I’ve been photographing this surreal lifestyle at our seasonal squatter camp in an abandoned cannery called Graveyard Point. I first discovered Graveyard while shooting for this Outside Magazine piece back in 2008 and immediately fell in love with the place.  Images from the new series are scheduled to launch along with a whole new website redesign very soon!

Meanwhile,  a huge mine is setting up shop upstream from Graveyard!!!  It’s time to kick some giant foreign corporate ass:

The Pebble Partnership is a coalition of huge foreign mining corporations who have staked out mineral rights in the headwaters of two of the largest wild sockeye salmon spawning rivers left in the world. If allowed to proceed, these corporations will dig one of the largest open pit mines in the world.  A lake would be needed to contain the up to 10,000,000,000 tons of toxic mining waste which would then be contained by an earthen dam larger in mass then the Three Gorges Dam in China (in an extemely seismic location). In my mind, it is not possible for a mine of this scale to co-exist with the approx. 38,000,000 sockeye salmon returning each year to Bristol Bay to spawn. Given the poor track record hard rock mining has had in regards to clean water, and the sheer scale of what these guys are trying to do, I cannot imagine this story ending in anything less then an unfixable environmental catastrophe and at best, and economic disaster for the fishermen and natives that are sustained by Bristol Bay salmon.

We’ve already devastated most of the great salmon runs in California and the Pacific Northwest due to dams and pollution. Let’s make sure that Pebble Mine doesn’t happen to Bristol Bay.

I’ve teamed up with Trout Unlimited, the Renewable Resources Foundation, and others to fight the massive propaganda campaign paid for by Northern Dynasty Minerals (Canada) and Anglo American (UK).  We desperately need the EPA to step in and assess the situation as so far, the mining corporations have been responsible to hire their own “environmental impact studies” with virtually no public oversight.  Check out the Save Bristol Bay website to find out more about what you can do to get the word out and decide for yourself.

On the back cover of the December 2011 issue of Alaska magazine is a portrait I shot this summer of my fellow fishermen at Graveyard Point. Thanks to the Renewable Resources Foundation who is doing good work to protect help save the future of the people that co-exist with the Bristol Bay ecosystem. Also thanks to all my fellow Graveyarders for coming out in force to sit for this photo!  I can’t wait to get back out there in June.

One of the great assets to being in your 30′s is that suddenly talented friends seem to find their way. The 30′s are a time to get shit done instead of dreaming and playing and struggling with no end in site like the 20′s often feel like.  Well, that’s not to say that the 30′s are a time to stop playing and dreaming, but it is a time when you can also start your own company that makes stuff to keep everyone else in the world dreaming, adventuring, laughing outloud, and staying warm and dry in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

My friend, Benji Wagner, an already multi-talented photographer and filmmaker is guilty of stepping up his 30′s for the benefit of mankind and creating something great called POLER STUFF. Poler is a heat bag company, a camping gear brand, and creator of a snuggie-like sleeping bag that I’m wearing right now as I type out this blog post.  I’m a skateboarder, snowboarder, crappy surfer, and I like the woods…  Poler is the dream merger of simplicity, style and practicality in a gear brand that embodies this lifestyle.

I’ve got some incredible journeys coming up in the next year and proudly rocking Poler along the way and will be contributing to their beautiful adventure series. I’m now on the Poler team, a childhood sponsorship dream come true!  Enough of the propaganda, just check out the Poler Stuff site, and the visually inspiring Poler Blog and support small business this year when searching for Christmas gifts for your loved ones. Oh, and here’s a nice video to get you in the mood.

Quiet Camp Vibes from Poler Camping Stuff on Vimeo.

When Geert Stadeus from Belgium based Snoecks magazine contacted me about showcasing my work, I had no idea what to expect nor that my sexy little cat “Kitty” would be featured on the cover. I just got my copy in the mail and pretty excited about the good company of some of my favorite photographers including Alec Soth, Alex Prager, Carl de Keyzer, Simen Johan, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Charles Freger, and Simon Norfolk.  Snoecks is an annual magazine – more book-like in scope – It’s been around since 1925, and has apparently achieved mainstream appeal in Belgium, the Netherlands and beyond?   My cover was part of a limited addition as the book usually features an incredibly cheesy 80′s style glamour fashion photo on the cover… quite in contrast to the selection of serious art photography portfolios found inside. A friend of mine with Dutch roots told me that her family has collected Snoecks since the dawn of time, and that her American friends when visiting would head strait to their Snoecks stash to catch a glimpse of some fine  euro-erotic photography that parents in the U.S. wouldn’t normally stock on their shelves.

 

It’s been a big few years for my Kitty and Horse Fisherman photo.   Despite being ripped off all over the web, it’s shown up on the cover of many publications far and wide.  Here is a short list of covers that Kitty has shown up on around the world.

I suppose I should be flattered when a French Art magazine “Artension” puts a web compressed jpeg of the image on the cover of their mag without even asking me permission, or asking for a high res image.  One of my french spies spotted the mag on a newstand so I called them and they said:  ”We sent you an email and you didn’t respond so we decided to print it anyway”.

Bant Magazine is an art magazine in Turkey!

The Stranger, a weekly in Seattle for the halloween issue in 2007

Juxtapoz Photo Book published in 2009.

This is the oddest of all: a great photographer named Harvey Benge sent me an email back in ’09 saying that he’d come across this flyer on a pole in Auckland, New Zealand.

My monograph Fish-Work: The Bering Sea

Holly recently created a curious new installation with fresh digs from the archive and new old frames to fill the wall at one of my favorite galleries in the Greater South, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta.   It is great to see more well deserved traffic to this series and a lot of care by the gallery to craft the experience of Sparrow Lane.  Holly Andres is my buddy and an inspiring force in my life and this series deserves a flight to Atlanta to see the prints in person.  Thanks Hol.

Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Ave NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30305
USA

404.233.3739 Ph
404.233.1205 Fx
anna@jacksonfineart.com
www.jacksonfineart.com

to everyone that came out to the opening at Ampersand in Portland.  The show will be up until November 27th.  Install shots are coming soon.

Also thanks for the great press coverage by Juxtapoz, Fecal Face Dot Com, PDN Photo of the Day, Fine Dining Lovers, and LifeTime Gear

My first book, Fish-Work: The Bering Sea published by Nazraeli Press, is back in print with signed copies available at www.fish-work.com. The book was recently selected as one of the PDN Photo Annual 2010 Books of the Year. It will also be featured in the November issue of American PHOTO magazine as one of the best books of the year and has fielded favorable reviews in FOAM magazine (Netherlands) among others Thanks!

I teamed up with the amazing Holly Andres to make a little video of the book online HERE

One of the great honors of my life was being invited to speak in front of over 2000 people at the Semi-Permanent Creative Conference in Sydney, Australia back in May of 2011.  I arrived not knowing much about any of the other speakers, but left truly inspired, with talented and lovely new friends.  Thanks again to Andrew Johnston and Murray Bell for the invite and helping me overcome a pretty severe life long fear of public speaking.   I just discovered this wonderful and nostalgic video compililation created from the conference.

Semi-Permanent Sydney 2011 Montage from Semi Permanent on Vimeo.

The photographs from my new book, Fishing With My Dad 1978-1995, published by Nazraeli Press along with never before seen images from the archive of my father, Chris Arnold, will be on display at the beautiful Ampersand Gallery and Fine Books in Portland, Oregon.  The show opens on October 15, 6-10pm, and runs through November 27.  My Dad and I will be present to answer questions about my choice of fashion in the 80′s.  Hope to see you there! Below is the press release

For Immediate Release:

Fishing with My Dad 1978 – 1995
An exhibition of photographs by Chris and Corey Arnold

October 15 to November 27, 2011
Artist reception on Saturday, October 15 from 6 to 10PM

Ampersand is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs curated by Portland photographer, Corey Arnold. The show is a collaboration of sorts between Corey & his father, Chris Arnold, who made these photographs throughout his son’s childhood as he grew up an avid sport fisherman in Southern California. The photographs speak to the fact that fishing & story telling go hand  in hand & that cameras & their snapshots have historically served to verify the truth of often questionable narratives. Recently published by Nazraeli Press in One Picture Book #69, the photographs also record the trajectory of a life in which fishing & photography have never been far apart. Indeed, Arnold is best known for his ongoing photographic project entitled Fish-Work, which chronicles commercial fishing throughout the world. He brings to this body of work not only his own firsthand experience as an Alaskan commercial fisherman; but a life-long passion for fishing, the roots of which we see here in snapshots that were made while fishing with his dad.

Corey Arnold’s photographs have been exhibited worldwide. He is represented by Charles A. Hartman Fine Art in Portland & Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica.  His first book, Fish-Work: The Bering Sea (2010), was named one of the best photo books of the year by PDN & American Photo magazines.  He has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Esquire, Whitewall, Outside, Juxtapoz, Art Ltd & Italian Rolling Stone; was chosen for the 2010 Portland Biennial & named one of PDN’s 30 top emerging photographers in 2009.

We are also pleased to announce that the second printing of Arnold’s widely acclaimed book, Fish-Work: The Bering Sea, which was published by Nazraeli Press, is now available to purchase at Ampersand. We’ll have several copies available the night of the opening & Arnold will be on hand to sign them.

View preview images here.
Visit Corey Arnold’s website here.

Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books
ampersandvintage.com
2916 NE Alberta St.
Portland, OR 97211
503.805.5458

 

Here are some install shots from the show that opened Sept 8, 2011 at Bold Hype Gallery in New York City’s Chelsea District.  Thanks to Eric Althin for curating a great show:  FRONTIERS – The photography of Corey Arnold, Peter Beste, and Celine Clanet

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve got some work in Spain opening on September 15, 2011 at Galeria Espacio Minimo in Madrid.  The show is curated by Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica and coincides with Apertura 2011 where over 50 contemporary art galleries open their doors for the new season.

For further information please contact the Gallery: Galería Espacio Mínimo Doctor Fourquet, 17 E-28012 Madrid (Spain) Tf: 34 91 467 6156 E-mail: galeria@espaciominimo.es http://www.espaciominimo.es