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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.

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

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

Thanks for those who bought the first printing of my first book.   The 1000 copy print run sold out in 4.5 months!  Nazraeli Press will be doing a second printing which is now available for pre-order at fish-work.com.  There are still a few first run books circulating in shops out there so its best to get your paws on them asap.  Meanwhile, my second book by Nazraeli Press, Fishing with My Dad, part of the “One Picture Book” series will be released early this summer.

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

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.

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

A company called Uncommon is making a line of artist Iphone cases.  Most of the art comes from the Fecal Face / Juxtapoz taste.  Pretty amazing new technology and well designed site.  You can choose from 10 of my most popular images and layout the photos on the case however you’d like.

photo: Corey Arnold

I didn’t know Phil Harris well, but from the few meetings we had in Dutch Harbor, I found him to be a really nice guy…  especially when I wasn’t pointing my camera in his face.  We will all miss his presence in Dutch. The world knows him as the skipper of the Cornelia Marie from Discovery’s Deadliest Catch but now perhaps, he is more famous then ever before. To the friends and family of Phil, I’d like to offer my condolences.

photo: Corey Arnold

It’s been a rough season in Dutch Harbor with at least five major traumas occurring in the Bering Sea this year. Many are healing and some will never be the same. This will certainly be an Opi season to forget.

2010 Animation Reel from Lori D on Vimeo.

Red Gold was created last year by a small crew of independent filmmakers: Travis Rummel, Ben Knight, and Lauren Oakes.  It is one of the most powerful environmental documentaries I’ve seen.  The trailer is a great introduction to Bristol Bay salmon fishing and the battle with Pebble Mine.

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

 Sara and I took some pictures of the neighbors chickens.

I got a phone call from The Paris Review awhile back and they asked to publish some photos.  Next thing I know, my pic is on the cover along with a nicely printed 17 pages of pictures from the Fish-Work series.  Thanks Paris Review folks!!

It’s been so long since I’ve regularly kept up with this blog… that it’s hard to begin again. A lot has happened since the new year and I’ve probably got about 10 posts worth of recapping to do before I get to current events… So, let’s just make this easy and I’ll just post out of order for the next year or so. Maybe I’ll suddenly remember in October something that happened in Feb, and I’ll post a picture with words… and you’ll wonder why there is snow in the background… etc. but you’ll never email me about it because it’s probably of no urgency to anyone to bring that to anyones attention… yeah.

Well since I’m a photographer, it just occurred to me that I should insert photos in my posts or no one would ever care to read the blog because there’s nothing to gain from reading yet another diary from someone you don’t know.

Ok, Let’s start with Switzerland. I went to Switzerland in March for a week. It was fully funded by a wonderful travel magazine which of whom I will mention when the story is actually published.

People in Switzerland as it turns out, are usually German tourists. (see above)

I met really interesting people and ate a lot of hot cheese, snowboarded everyday, the was force fed very expensive wine by the hosts. People in Arosa, Switzerland are not afraid to rock real big cat fur coats.

I got to hang out with the above man, we dined and laughed, skied together and pretended to understand each other.

He was quite agile.

I don’t normally sneak photos of people in public… and this is no exception. I gave him the old “can I take your picture wink” and he gave me a head nod that I think meant “yes, I’d actually prefer it”.

Switzerland is about teamwork

I tried my hand a bit of action sports photography.  This ain’t half bad I suppose.

This is where the blog starts to get all stock photo-y.  Someone in this building was recieving a massage at the exact moment the photograph was taken.

Has anyone that’s flown to Zurich seen this girl in the terminal train of the airport? I fell in love instantly and thought about her my whole trip. She winked at me on a hundred TV screens, then blew me a kiss. If anyone out there knows her personally, please be in touch.

That’s it for my Switzerland post… next up, Hawaii in April!

I have a new housemate and her cat is the identical cat to mine but a little bigger.

My friend JD Hooge of Portland along with his team at Gridplane have built a new website for me. Thanks, I hope ya’all like it.  This is also the beginning of this blog (everything before this was old news).