Archive for 2010

Eagle Welcome - © Corey Arnold 2010

I’m  currently sorting through the last two years of unpublished travels.  Heading back to Dutch Harbor in early January to hang out with more eagles.

My really good buddy Greg and his lovely lady friend Jessica came up with a really nice functional organic product/gift idea and I’m not just saying so that he will flow me free antlers. Antler and Co. makes wall mounted antlers with special hardware to stick directly out of your wall and hold a lot of heavy stuff like coats, books, axes, dead baby seals, and whatever else you have laying around the house that might look great hanging from an antler.  They are pretty class looking items, and best of all, the design, packaging, custom stamped and numbered metal bands, cedar chips as packing material, etc make the whole experience of Portlandizing your house with Antlers easy and a pretty cool gift.   I’m about to make a whole wall of these things displaying some of my favorite photography books at home.   Check the website! www.antlerandco.com

Antler and Co.

Antler and Co.

Greg is also an impressive builder, inventor, and photographer.  He’s got some nice photos on flickr from Iceland, and pictures of a new timber frame cabin that I wish I would have helped them build in northern Minnesota this year.

If you happen to be in SF on the night of my solo show opening in Portland, I’ll have one piece in this massive group show opening on the same night!  Lots of great people, and all art under 11×14 inches!

111 Minna Gallery would like to invite you to our massive year end group show, celebrating 111 of our very talented friends, family members and artist favorites.  Each artist will have 1 single contributing piece to the show, collectively making it an eclectic, interesting and fun group show.

Please join us for this, sure to be epic, opening reception!

111 proudly presents (in no particular order):

Kelly Tunstall, Jesse Pollock, Robert Bowen, Bill Dunlap, Jeremy Fish, Alex Pardee, Chris Brennan, Mike Giant, Nate Van Dyke, Audrey Erickson, Micah LeBraun, Bo Heimlich, Tim Schafer, Mike Davis, Matt Furie, Pacolli, Marco Zamora, Jay Howell, Ruthie Swanson, Dave Mabry, Brian Gilbert, Mildred, Mario Wagner, Junko Mizuno, Jacob McGraw, John Wentz, Deth P. Sun, Jake Watling, Martin Ontiveros, Justin Lovato, Andrew McClintock, Ross Pope, Erin McCarty, Brett Amory, Ryan De La Hoz, Jason Jagel, Kinsey, Corey A, Seth Armstrong, Stacey Rozich, Jason Adams, Michael Beinhorn, Ferris Plock, Mia Christopher, Mike Bertino, Aiyana Udesen, Alex Chiu, David Cook, Ryan Coffey, Sean Brimer, Yoni Matayaou, Mike Steffan, Kelly Nicolaisen, Jesse Gidcumb, Isabel Samaras, Hayden Menzies, Russ Pope, Kyle Field, Jeremy Tinder, Arlo Jamrog, John Casey, Ernest Doty, Frank Carter, Rob Reger, Ben Tour, Tracy Timmins, Brian, Dave Correia, Connor Williumsen, Brad K Alder, Andreas Trolf, Rob Williamson, Skinner ,Cody Cochrane,Heather Gabel, Gabe Castellanos, Michael Slack, Brooke Candy, Pakayla Biehn, Mark Mulrony, Annie Galvin, Adam Avilla, Johnny Bonnell, Adam 5100, Matt Crookshank, Taylor Wessling, Darryl Peirce, Charmaine Olivia, Emilly Scannell, Todd Noble Holloway, Jesse Balmer, Gina Contreras, Seth Neefus, Jennybird, David Torch, Josh Yule, Zack Schlemmer, Scott Greenwalt, Parskid, Greg Speck, Ben Johston, David Fallis, Sergio Navarro-Duran, Ian Mullen, George Webber, Mark Todd, Jason Yim, Jason Cruz, Winston Smith, Jessica Trippe, Rogelio Martinez, Dennis McNulty, Michael Steffen, Leslie Winchester, Sergio Navarro-Duran, Llewellyn Bryan Dawson, Dennis McNulty, Bram de Martelaere.

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I’ll be adding new images to the new FISH-WORK Europe portfolio on my website throughout this week leading up to my exhibition at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art in Portland, OR on Thursday.  The pictures were taken in Ireland, Scotland, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Spain, and Greece this year and part of a broad project,  documentating the state of the commercial fishing industry in Europe and sponsored by the PEW Charitable Trust.

Lunar Plant Workers, Peterhead, Scotland / Corey Arnold 2010

Dogfish Nap, Guilvinec, France / Corey Arnold 2010

If you are trying to get on my website, it’s gone loco and there is probably no support til after the holiday weekend.  Note to self:  do not put out a new photo series, do a big mass email announcing book/ show /etc. on a holiday weekend when there is a bandwidth limit (that I didn’t know about) and no support. Here is a new picture that you can see in person at my solo show at Charles A. Hartman opening Tuesday, Dec. 2

Shark Men/ by Corey Arnold / 20x27inches / Chromira C-Print / Vigo, Spain 2010

Join me for the opening reception of my new FISH-WORK Europe series at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art in Portland Oregon on first Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010 5-8:30 pm.  I’ll also be signing copies of my new book, FISH-WORK: The Bering Sea, now available for preorder and published by Nazraeli Press!

Sole Hunter, 30x40 inches, C-Print, Dutch Beam Trawling in the North Sea by Corey Arnold

Charles A. Hartman Fine Art
154 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
Dec 2, 2010 thru Jan 15, 2011
Opening Reception Dec 2, 5-8:30 pm

I’m very excited to announce the release of my first photography monograph published by Nazraeli Press. FISH-WORK The Bering Sea is an 80 page, large format book of images from my seven years working as a commercial fisherman in the Bering Sea waters of Alaska.  It was an honor to work with the very kind Chris Pichler (founder of Nazraeli Press) on the design and layout of the book.  Nazraeli has long been one of my favorite photography book publishers and has in his catalogue some amazing printed matter by many of my favorites: Todd Hido, Gus Van Sant, Alesssandra Sanguinetti, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Daido Moriyama, Michael Kenna, and Mark Steinmetz.

You can pre-order SIGNED copies direct from my studio in the new Fish-Workshop online.  The first edition is limited to only 1000 copies, so I’m not sure how long they will last! Books will be shipping sometime in late December. Below is the press release with a bit more info:

Fish-Work: The Bering Sea

Spread from Fish-Work: The Bering Sea

Fish-Work: The Bering Sea
Photographs by Corey Arnold
ISBN: 978-1-59005-306-5
Hardcover, 15 x 12 inches, 80 pages, 47 four-color plates
Published by Nazraeli Press 2010

The photographs in “Fish-Work: The Bering Sea” capture moments from Arnold’s grueling retreats as a crew member aboard a fishing boat to the Bering Sea. With scenes of boat life so vivid that some shots can induce fear or seasickness, the artist’s perspective also reveals the tender soulfulness of a fisherman’s extended life at sea. His skillful compositions depict the simultaneous bravery, toil, humor and gumption that “fish-work” demands. Yet the series also illuminates the aesthetic sublimity that can only be experienced, ultimately, by those willing to risk their lives where the sea breaks its back. Having survived several seasons afloat these icy and unforgiving waters, we are lucky that Arnold has taken time to document his artistic impressions of this rare lifestyle and extended us a vicarious glimpse.

A graduate of the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Corey Arnold lives and works in Portland, and now runs a commercial salmon fishing boat in Bristol Bay, Alaska.  His work has been exhibited worldwide.  Recent publications featuring Arnold’s work include the Juxtapoz Photo Book, Esquire, The Sunday Telegraph, Rolling Stone, Outside, The Paris Review, The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography and PDN’s 30.

“Fish-Work: The Bering Sea” is published by Nazraeli Press in conjunction with Charles A. Hartman Fine Art. It is printed in an oversized format in a first edition of 1,000 casebound copies.

I’ve got one piece being auctioned off among 50 other nice Portland artists in Disjecta’s annual benefit auction opening tomorrow night.  See you there!

The time is NOW for Disjecta’s 4th Annual Art Auction ‘Bid at the Bunyan’.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13
7-11 PM / 8371 N Interstate Avenue /Portland, Oregon/ MAP!

Purchase your tickets online, or register at the door
21+, general admission $20

Was just sent this design by Berlin artist Jens Lembke who used adapted one of my pictures into a poster for a party.

design: Jens Lembke

Norway is my favorite country on Earth, but life near a warm sea with fresh octopus hanging on racks has its perks as well. I had an enormously good time traveling around Greece this September on assignment for En Route Magazine. I can’t say enough about how great this magazine is to work for.  5 star hotels and my own private yacht for a few days!  It was not the type of boat travel or weather that I’m used to, but I’ll take it. Below are some out takes.  I’ve been getting into the posed group portrait lately and will soon apply for my dream job as an Olan Mills photographer.

© Corey Arnold

© Corey Arnold

© Corey Arnold

© Corey Arnold

© Corey Arnold

© Corey Arnold

Last week I joined my friend, Gilles, searching for seafood along the shores of Douarnenez, in Brittany, France

I’ve got one photograph hanging in a show in Brooklyn that opens tomorrow.   Here is the info below.
Sorry I won’t be present as I am currently trimming my beard in the bathroom of a pub in Harlingen, Netherlands.

Plain Air
Opening Reception Friday October 15th 7-10pm
Curated by Brian Willmont

Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer St. Store#2
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (map)

Patrick Casey

Corey Arnold, Patrick Casey, Mark Chariker, John Copeland, Sophia Cara Frydman, Joseph Hart, Cody Hoyt, Alex Lukas, Eddie Martinez, Niall Mcclelland, Steak Mtn., Caleb Neelon, Hilary Pecis, Eric Saline, Zac Scheinbaum, Andrew Schoultz, Mark Schoening, Conor Thompson, Paul Wackers, Brian Willmont

Plain Air is the second in a series of exhibitions put together by the loose-knit collective/publishing-printmaking project called Apenest. Beginning as a way to create a rad and cost-effective art book, artists Brian Willmont and Cody Hoyt started Apenest by collecting artwork from their favorite artists, selling the work to collectors themselves and then taking the proceeds to self-publish their first book featuring everyone who contributed. They have since published 2 massive, beautiful full-color books that act as a wonderful compendium of underground contemporary art and have begun exhibiting their work together in a series of thematic group shows.

Plain Air explores the theme of landscape as the space we inhabit, falling somewhere between reality and fantasy. Some artists address the topic head on; Patrick Casey’s updated New England wall art puts a shocking twist on familiar imagery, while Conor Thompson has a more topical approach focusing on the alienation of the modern landscape. Others transform the idea of landscape completely as a form of space beyond physical constrictions and break into its total abstraction.

Cinders Gallery

103 Havemeyer St. Store#2
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (map)

Ben and King / Graveyard Point, Alaska ©Corey Arnold 2010

This could very well be my most traveled year ever.   After three weeks in Ireland and Scotland, and a few days in Baton Rouge shooting an ad for Capitol One,  I was commissioned by Alaska Seafood to photograph fishing families in Juneau, Kodiak, Dutch Harbor, and Naknek.  Amazing assignment, and even more amazing people met along the way.   From Naknek, I fired up my skiff and set out with  good friend/writer/deckhand Tim Sohn for five weeks commercial fishing for sockeye salmon at the mouth of the Kvichak River.  Fishing was out of control good.  Little sleep was had. Many fish lives were lost.

Here are a few new ones from my PEW sponsored photo documentary of the EU fishing industry.  Just a little sneak preview, there is much more work to come!

Trawl Work, Peterhead, Scotland / photo: Corey Arnold

All the species in one Prawn Haul, Peterhead Scotland / photo: Corey Arnold

Monkfish, Peterhead Fish Market, Scotland / photo: Corey Arnold

Back in March/April of this year, I tagged along for some Pollock dragging on the 149 ft. Pacific Prince out of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.  The assignment  from OnEarth Magazine (NRDC) was to document the fleets efforts to avoid excessive salmon bycatch and capture the overall feeling of life as a trawlerman in the Bering Sea.  Here are some of the spreads as well as a few I like that couldn’t fit into the story.  I love assignments that apply 100% to my life’s work.

Cover Photo: Corey Arnold

photo: Corey Arnold

photo: Corey Arnold

Photo: Corey Arnold

photo: Corey Arnold

Photo: Corey Arnold

I’m happy to be included in this three person show with Sabastião Salgado and Camille Seaman opening next week.  On display will be 3-4 new giant prints from my Fish-Work series.  Good Times!

Corey Arnold, The Scavengers, 2010, C-Print, 48x69 inches, Edition of 3

RICHARD HELLER GALLERY PRESENTS

Oceans
Opening Reception
Saturday, June 5, 2010
5-7 p.m.

featuring:
Corey Arnold
Sebastião Salgado
Camille Seaman

2525 Michigan Ave. B-5A
Santa Monica, CA 90404

I’ve recently been commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trust to photograph the state of commercial fishing in the European Union.  The project will continue over several trips throughout 2010. Keep your eyes peeled for a whole new body of Fish-Work gone global later this year.  I’m on the lookout for contacts in coastal Ireland, Scotland, the Shetlands, Holland, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and the Canary Islands so if anyone has connections with the fishing industry in these places, feel free to drop me a line at corey@coreyfishes.com

First stop (next week): Ireland and Scotland

I’m just back from a trip in the Bering Sea aboard a Pollock trawler and getting over the random bout of pneumonia upon return.  Stay tuned for more pictures after the story goes to print.

I’m excited to release a handful of new images from my latest trip to the Bering Sea in January.  I worked as a replacement crewman for an injured friend aboard the f/v Rollo for an Opilio crab trip and took some pictures a long the way.  Five of these images will be featured in the Portland 2010 – A Biennial of Contemporary Art exhibition which will open on March 20th. The prints will be my largest ever made… up to six feet wide. See the following blog post for directions and more information.

Freedom Bird, 2010 / photo: Corey Arnold

Arctic Hunter, 2010 photo: Corey Arnold

Salt Birds, 2010 photo: Corey Arnold