Archive for the ‘New Pictures’ Category

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

On rare occasions, a surfable wave appears at the spit in Dutch Harbor, Alaska.  These pics were taken on Jan 18, 2010 actually during twilight hours.  But you’ve got to wear a seagull destruction helmet to survive the “beakings“.  The wave breaks at the base of the Icicle Seafoods fish guts and bits discharge pipe so watch out for 10,000 hungry birds, 300 pound halibut and boat sized sleeper sharks nipping at your toes.

photos: Corey Arnold

Good times about to happen in L.A. I’ll be down for a visit and proudly displaying five new images at a Garage Gallery event at the Federal Art Project:  Photos between Photos.  The show features five globe trotting photographers and the experience of life out in the big world between projects or assignments.  Go to garagegalleryla.com for more details.

Orginal photographs by Flora Hanitijo, Corey Arnold, Amanda Marsalis, Mike Murphy, and Rebecca Leopold.  Opening Saturday, Dec 5 from 8pm to Midnight.

Come down and say hello!

A picture I took long ago of my beautiful niece holding a giant potato can be found just under Matt Damon’s bum on the cover of Esquire (October 2009).

Certainly a proud moment for Matt Damon to be in close proximity to my exceptionally cute niece.

I’ve been chosen to be in a slide show with 30 other photographers that will accompany the Pictures of the Year International (POYi) exhibition at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles.  Looks like I’ll be in Canada, but sounds like a good time if you are in the neighborhood. Here is the low down:

 The Annenberg Space for Photography
is pleased to invite you to SLIDE SHOW NIGHT
Thursday, September 17, 7:00-9:00pm

Following the great success of the Slide Show Night hosted by the Annenberg Space for Photography, during the L8S ANG3LES exhibit last April, the Photo Space is pleased offer an evening dedicated to the talents of international photojournalists. On September 17, 2009 the screens of the Photo Space will display a new array of exciting images which both compliment the mission of Annenberg Foundation, as well as the current exhibition

This Slide Show night is inspired by Pictures Of Year, International (POYi), which focuses on photojournalism and documentary photography. The images gathered for this presentation have been culled from the work of 30 photographers, covering current subjects as varied as addiction, Native American socio-economic issues, International Affairs, Migrant Fishing in the Bering Sea, the fervor of Michael Jackson Fans, the cultures of Chinese Turkistan and Ethiopian Jews.

The list of participating photographers is as follows:

Corey Arnold
Nina Berman
Larry Brownstein
David Butow
Philipp Engelhorn
Deanne Fitzmaurice
Yves Gellie
Masaru Goto
Katja Heinemann
Ryan Heffernan
Lisa Hogben
Aaron Huey
Kenneth Jarecke
Ann Johansson
Irene Fertik
Catherine Karnow
Ed Kashi
Brenda Ann Kenneally
Rita Leister
Gary Dwight Miller
Mike O’Meally
Darcy Padilla
Ryan Pyle
Benjamin Rasmussen
Espen Rasmussen
David Rochkind
Joseph Rodriguez
Marissa Roth
Q. Sakamaki
Lourdes Segade

This program is a non-seated event. Complimentary food and beverage will be provided to registered guests.

RSVP: Please RSVP via email to pdavis@annenbergspaceforphotography.org with your name and the names, or number, in your party. We can take group reservations up 4 persons. We advise that you RSVP promptly as the guest list for this event will reach capacity quickly. You will receive a confirmation that your RSVP has been received.

Time: 7:00-9:00pm
Fee: This is a FREE event.
Location: 2000 Avenue of the Stars #10
, Los Angeles, CA. 90067 - (behind the CAA building).
Parking: $1.00 with validation in visitor’s parking lot, accessed via Constellation.

I spent June and July this summer commercial fishing for salmon in Bristol Bay and following up with pictures on last years Outside magazine story about the proposed Pebble mine.  It’s been very busy over here with magazine assignments, my salmon business and upcoming group exhibitions so I’ve only just begun to sort through the summers huge arsenal of new pictures!  As soon as I’m home for a solid week or two, I’ll be adding a ton of new images to the site. Hopefully, I’m not crying wolf again this time.

I was recently profiled in Art Ltd. magazine by Portland art critic Richard Speer.  It’s a pretty good summary of what I’m up to these days. Nice of Richard to come for a face to face interview.  Very often interviews these days take place via email questions and it’s too easy to make yourself sound cooler then you really are. That said, I guess I did mention 100 foot waves outloud… but that was my cap i tan’s story telephoned through me.  Everyone adds an extra 10 feet to the wave size, then passes it on.

I just wrapped up a 1.5 month venture into Bristol Bay, Alaska where I’ve started my own commercial salmon catching business. Lot’s of pictures and a new portfolio category to come soon!

But first, lots of catching up to do back home.  102 degrees here in the office in Portland, and record temps while I was in Alaska as well.  Something’s fishy!

Last summer I returned to Bristol Bay, Alaska on assignment for Outside Magazine.  This is the place that I landed my first commercial fishing job in 1995. It’s a pristine wilderness area, home to caribou and giant brown bears and one of the last great wild salmon producing river systems in North America that hasn’t been exploited by human tinkering… until now.  One of the world’s largest deposits of Copper and Gold has been discovered in the headwaters of the Nushagak and Kvichak rivers.  Foreign mining companies have converged on the site and hope to dig one of the largest open pit mines in the world, worth hundreds of billions of dollars.  Tailings from the mine could eventually seep their way into the watershed and destroy the salmon habitat forever.  Pick up Outside Magazine this month and check out the hard hitting article written by my pal Tim Sohn.

This summer, I’ll be operating my own fishing vessel in Bristol Bay and will continue my photo project on the region.  More picks and a shiny new portfolio section to come.  Below are some spreads from the Outside article.  They also put up a small web gallery of my picks online.  Thanks to all the fisherman that accommodated me for my one month journey around the bay last year!

I’m back from a short trip to Russia and Norway.

Halibuting two months ago on the f/v Two Bears

I just arrived back from another journey to Finnmark in Northern Norway where I lived with a very friendly old Sami couple that treated me to fresh blood sausages after long days of reindeer roundup and slaughter. More photos to come!

I was having a nice time in South Africa this week until I witnessed this atrocity happen in front of a carload of innocent grandmothers.

The Rollo now has a website at rollocrab.com. Hurray! But don’t get too excited because it isn’t done yet… but there are a few new photos.

Back on board the Rollo for another round of Opilio crabbin’. As I write, we are anchored up at St Paul Island in the middle of the Bering Sea. Winds are blowing from the North at 40 knots. Temp is 18 degrees Farenheit. Ice is forming on the deck and we are preparing for heavy freezing spray for the next week of fishing. The discovery film crew is back on board with cameras waiting to capture our boat as it turns into a giant ice cube. Meanwhile I’m writing a story with photos for National Fisherman magazine, shooting once again for the Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch” and making a website for our boat. Have a nice day.