Artist Bio

Born in 1976, Corey Arnold grew up in a Southern California suburb. His fascination with the sea grew out of early fishing adventures in the Pacific with his father. Soon he found himself in Alaska, where he first landed a commercial fishing job for salmon in 1995.

His love affair with the North had begun. Many years of summer trips to Alaska followed. He worked in the salmon industry to help pay the way through art school at the Academy of Art College San Francisco. Then, Corey set off to find a more high stakes career. He began crab fishing in the winter of 2003 in the Bering Sea, an occupation considered one of the world's most hazardous and participated in the first season of "The Deadliest Catch" on the Discovery Channel.

The enormous power of the sea and its stunning contrast to the tiny humans working on deck in their florescent orange suits set the scene for his life project in photography. He would photograph this life, his life and travel the world in search of others who share this mysterious love/hate relationship with the sea.

Corey continues to work 3-4 months out of the year as a crab fisherman. He has simultaneously lived in Norway for the past 4 years and spent weeks at sea with Norwegian fisherman and whalers and wandering the coast alone in the Arctic. In 2005, he received an American Scandinavian Foundation grant for his Norwegian fisherman project, which continues today.

This DIY lifestyle and photography project has garnered widespread media attention including Rolling Stone magazine, New York magazine, RE:UP, Juxtapoz, Artweek, Giant Robot, FHM UK, Humble Arts Foundation, National Fisherman, and Popular Photography.