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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

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.

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

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.

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

Steven Smith Portrait for WSJ, Dec 24, 2011. Photo by Corey Arnold

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.

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!).

Italian Rolling Stone - June 2011

Italian Rolling Stone interview with Corey Arnold - June 2012

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 proposed Pebble Mine site. Photo: Corey Arnold

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.

All Graveyard Point crews 2011, Photo: Corey Arnold

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.

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

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

Untitled #11, Corey Arnold holding a Shad, photo by Chris Arnold circa 1985

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

Corey Arnold - Bold Hype Gallery

Corey Arnold, Celine Clanet - Bold Hype Gallery

Celine Clanét, Peter Beste, Corey Arnold - Bold Hype Gallery

Corey Arnold - Bold Hype Gallery

Corey Arnold - Bold Hype Gallery

Books by Celine Clanet, Corey Arnold, and Peter Beste

Earlier this year I spent some time in the Caribbean shooting for several magazines including one for the UK based Monocle Magazine.  Here are some spreads, out now in the October issue.  Attached are a few outtakes.  More stories in the works so stay posted for more images!

Monocle Magazine, Photos by Corey Arnold

Monocle - Cuba - Photos by Corey Arnold

photo: Corey Arnold

photo: Corey Arnold

photo: Corey Arnold

photo: Corey Arnold

Nazraeli Press has just released my second book which is a collaboration with my Father, entitled  Fishing with My Dad 1978-1995. The book is part of Nazraeli’s One Picture Book subscription series which showcases obscure and previously unseen work in a small format.   The book is limited to 500 copies and includes an original print signed by myself and my dad.  Most are already pre-sold but there are a very small amount available for purchase on Nazraeli’s website.   These are photographs my father made throughout my childhood, growing up as a hardcore sportfisherman in Southern California. Here is a little video made by the amazing Holly Andres.  Thanks Holly!

On September 8th,  I’ll be at Bold Hype Gallery in NYC to celebrate the opening of a three person show include my good friend Céline Clanet and her stunning Máze series from Arctic Norway, Peter Beste: best known for his powerful documentary on Norwegian Black Metal, and me.  I’ll be showing some newer and unseen work from my latest salmon fishing project in Bristol Bay Alaska and Fish-Work Europe.   Hope you all can make it, and do say hello.  I’ll be milling around the city all week.

Back in April, I met up with Jake and Josh Harris, two stars of the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch and shot portraits of the brothers for People Magazine. The article had a look at where they are now, one year after their father, Phil Harris, skipper of the f/v Cornelia Marie‘s tragic death. It’s been 5 years since me the crew of the f/v Rollo were filmed for Deadliest Catch. Back then the show was popular, but now it’s a beast. Things have changed quite a lot in Dutch, and those who have starred on the show since the beginning have become huge celebrities. Who knew?

So, when I met Josh and Jake again after a few years time, I was pleasantly surprised that they were good guys. Genuinely humble and patient in spending a whole day with me in three locations around the greater Seattle area. Josh had just come back from a week at the playboy mansion and wore a watch worth six figures and drives a top of the line Mercedes, which was a bit ludicrous, but somehow he pulls it off with humility.

Here are some pics from the people mag spreads and some outtakes that didn’t make the very small cut:

Jake and Josh Harris for People Magazine -- photo: Corey Arnold

Josh Harris and Jake Harris at home with his dog for People Magazine. photo: Corey Arnold

Jake and Josh Harris with dad's Corvette. Photo: Corey Arnold

Josh Harris in Seattle. Photo: Corey Arnold

Jake Harris at Home. Photo: Corey Arnold

Josh Harris at home. Photo: Corey Arnold

Josh Harris Bedroom. Photo: Corey Arnold

Josh Harris Bedroom Scene. photo: Corey Arnold

Jake Harris and gnome tree. photo: Corey Arnold

Fisherman's Memorial in Seattle. Photo: Corey Arnold