Archive for 2012

A shot I made while snorkeling on a wreck in Southern Greece was just published in the April 2012 issue of Outside Magazine.

photo: Corey Arnold for Outside Magazine

Last weekend was the opening of a massive photo festival in Knokke-Heist, Belgium called Wonderland. Christophe De Jaeger, the curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels (BOZAR), chose six international photographers to show their work all over town, indoors and outdoors on a gigantic scale.  The photographers include Michael Light, Ruud Van Empel, Sanna Kannisto, Olaf Otto Becker, Corey Arnold, and Gerco De Ruijter. Knokke is a high class beach town on the coast of Belgium and they spared no expense producing enormous inkjet prints on Canvas and Dibond plates. The show was designed to be a bike tour taking you on a scavenger hunt around the city and countryside. I also had a solo exhibition of Fish-Work images at the Sincfala Museum in Heist. Here are some snaps! Oh, and I was interviewed by A Belgian TV station called Cobra. You can watch the video here.

Corey Arnold and his photo in Knokke-Heist

Ben and King, photo: Corey Arnold

Freedom Bird, photo: Corey Arnold

Spanish Trawl Deck, photo: Corey Arnold

Opilio Bed, photo: Corey Arnold

French Trawlerman, photo: Corey Arnold

Kitty and Horse Fisherman, photo: Corey Arnold

Foto Festival Knokke-Heist, photo: Corey Arnold

Grumpy! Grumpy! Grumpy! photo: Corey Arnold

Corey Arnold prints at the photo festival in Knokke-Heist, Belgium

Ruud Van Empel photographs, photo: Corey Arnold

Michael Light, Full Moon in Belgium photo: Corey Arnold

Gerco De Ruijter on a barn in Belgium

Olaf Otto Becker in Knokke, Belgium

Sanna Kannisto photo in Knokke, Belgium

Sincfala Museum, Heist, Belgium

Curator of Sincfala Museum Estelle Slegers with Corey Arnold and Gigantic print, Heist, Belgium

Fish-Work Europe, Sincfala Museum, Corey Arnold

After party crew in Knokke, Belgium

The International photo festival in Knokke-Heist, Belgium opens today start at the opening of “Fish-Work” at the Sincfala Museum – 2pm. The main opening ceremony happens tonight around 6pm in the Cultural Center. Bristol Bay salmon in the old country!

Ben Thomas and bloody King Salmon

A few early photographs send to me from the setup of my exhibition opening this weekend in Knokke-Heist, Belgium at the Sincfala Museum. There will be about 25 more of these big ones!

Foto Festival Knokke-Heist

Corey Arnold - Beamer Catch - Exhibition in Belgium 2012

Fish-Work goes to Belgium - Corey Arnold

Freedom Bird - Knokke Heist Foto Festival - Corey Arnold

I’m in London making my way over to Belgium to attend a huge foto festival in the coastal town of Knokke Heist opening on March 24th, 2012.  I’ll have over 20 images from my Fish-Work series blown up to enormous sizes and placed on buildings and walls, and a pavilion all over town.  The Sincfala museum will also be hosting an inside solo exhibition of my work opening the same night.  Five other international photographers were chosen to participate including Olaf Otto Becker (one of my favorites from Deutschland), Michael Light (US), Ruud van Empel (NL), Sanna Kannisto (Finland), and Gerco De Ruijter (NL).  The town of Knokke has really gone all out on this one, should be worth a flight across the pond to see.  The show is curated by Christophe De Jaeger, Director of photography for the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels.

Richard Heller will be showing six new images from my Wolf Tide series at the Armory Show – Contemporary which opens tomorrow in New York City.

Here are the details:
The Armory Show – Contemporary is the foremost contemporary art fair in America, featuring leading international galleries representing new art by living artists.

March 8-11
Richard Heller Gallery booth
Pier 94
NYC

My image “Opilio Bed” was featured in the March 5, 2012 issue of Der Spiegel, Germany’s leading political magazine. They interviewed my good buddy Matthew Sullivan who stars in many of my pictures from our crabbing days aboard the f/v Rollo.

photo: Corey Arnold for Der Spiegel

Thanks to everyone that came out for my Wolf Tide exhibition at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica last Saturday. It was an action packed night and I’m really grateful for the turnout, as well as the large Portland contingency of great friends who made the trek South for the weekend.  Thanks to the talented Holly Andres and Scott Pommier, my niece Caitlin Foster, and my Dad for supplying the shots. Wolf Tide runs until March 31, 2012.  Send your SoCal friends over before it’s gone!

Corey Arnold - Wolf Tide Opening Night at Richard Heller Gallery

Cowabunga

Corey Arnold - Wolf Tide at Richard Heller Gallery

Corey Arnold - Wolf Tide at Richard Heller Gallery

Corey Arnold - Wolf Tide at Richard Heller Gallery

Corey Arnold - Wolf Tide at Richard Heller Gallery

Corey Arnold - Wolf Tide at Richard Heller Gallery

Corey Arnold - Wolf Tide at Richard Heller Gallery

Corey Arnold - Wolf Tide at Richard Heller Gallery

Corey Arnold - Wolf Tide at Richard Heller Gallery

Corey Arnold, Scott Pommier and Cole Barash

Why buy it when you can re-photograph it!

Cameron Glenndening and "On Table Mountain"

Holly Andres and "Lesser Spotted"

Kelly Collins, Lisa Schonberg, Vanessa Renwick

Printed matter lookers

Dad, "Salmon Shark", Mom, and Corey

"The Scavengers" with text message lady

Lovely ladies blocking "Throw Down the Mountain"

Confusion over "Throw Down the Mountain"

"Eagle Welcome" viewing

"Slack Water" with Mom and Dad

"Graveyard Roosters" with Meiko Arquillos

Corey with Niece Caitlin, John, and sister Stacy and "Eagle Welcome"

Karate chop viewing

Radcliff's Entourage

I’m in a group show in Portland, Oregon opening at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art on Thursday, March 1, 2012 among the company of some great dead guys and some of my favorite living photographers. Wow, lots of good shows this Thursday. Also check out Clayton Cotterell’s Unarmed opening at PNCA the same night. Many great NYC photographers seem to be making the pilgrimage to Portland these days.

Charles A. Hartman Fine Art Presents:
GUN: A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS
February 29 – March 31, 2012
Opening reception on First Thursday, March 1st, 5:00—8:00pm

Portland, OR—Guns are a loaded subject. Their renderings in art are as varied as people’s views regarding them. From rifles for hunting to handguns for protection to weapons used in war and violent crime, guns are a part of American history, culture and mythology. With GUN: A Collection of Photographs, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art is excited to present an exhibition of compelling images both historical and contemporary. From tintype to c-print, the exhibition includes classic images by photographers such as Frederick Sommer, Danny Lyon, William Klein, Elliott Erwitt and Berenice Abbott, as well as recent works by gallery artists Mark Steinmetz, Raymond Meeks, Jason Langer and Corey Arnold.

My friend Eugénie Frerichs is opening a new exhibition of photographs, a series of re-enactments from her recovery from a difficult surgery.  I love these! Stop by for a look on Thursday night at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon.  Details below!

If in Los Angeles, come out to this huge group show tonight. See you there!

Wolf Tide, new photographs by Corey Arnold opens in Los Angeles (Santa Monica) at Richard Heller Gallery on Saturday, February 25, 2012.  Feel free to steal this jpeg and send to your friends in L.A. Hope to see you there

And for more Portlander in L.A. action next week, come out to the Museum of Jurassic on Thursday, Feb 23rd to watch several of Vanessa Renwick’s epic short films on the big screen.  See the facebook invite here.

And if you are up for an L.A. triple play, don’t miss THESE FRIENDS III, a massive group show of some of my favorite artists and photographers at THIS Los Angeles opening on February 24th.

MARE, the beautifully designed German magazine dedicated to the subject of the Sea, has published an 18 page interview about my various Fish-Work projects in the Feb/March Issue.  It’s the largest and one of the best designed magazine features I’ve ever had.  Thanks to the writer, Holger Gertz, who made the trek across the pond to talk about the sea. Now if I can find someone to translate.

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!

Bush Family, Kotzebue, Alaska 2011 from the Arcticness series // photo: Corey Arnold

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.

The Lookout, 2010 30x40 inches photo: Corey Arnold

Bound, 2010 30x38 inches photo: Corey Arnold

Throw Down the Mountain, 2010 39x56 inches photo: Corey Arnold

Wolf Tide, 2008 30x38 inches photo: Corey Arnold

Eagle Welcome, 2010 30x40 inches photo: Corey Arnold

Moose Packed, 2009 30x40 inches photo: Corey Arnold

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.

photo: Corey Arnold

photo: Corey Arnold

"La Rata" photo: Corey Arnold

Cowboy in El Golfo de Santa Clara, Mexico photo: Corey Arnold

photo: Corey Arnold

Corvina Fishermen in the Gulf of California, photo: Corey Arnold

Gillnetting for Corvina photo: Corey Arnold

photo: Corey Arnold

photos: Corey Arnol

photo: Corey Arnold

self portrait with donkey photo: Corey Arnold

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.

photo: Corey Arnold

photo: Corey Arnold

photo: Corey Arnold

photo: Corey Arnold

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.

photo: Greg Hennes