Blogging for ML4U: Breakfast with Corey Arnold

23 February 2011

Last week I had the pleasure of sitting down with commercial fisherman and photographer, Corey Arnold, while he was in town for his current show at Fecal Face Dot Gallery. The interview went live on My Love for You yesterday - check it out.

Corey Arnold practically got his sea legs before he could walk. He grew up fishing with his dad in Vista, California, and has now traveled the world over as a commercial fisherman since 1995 and captain of his own salmon fishing boat since 2009. He has seen the waters of Spain, Scotland, Greece, France, the Netherlands, Poland, of  and a handful of other countries while serving as official documentarian for the European fishery coalition, Ocean 2012, that seeks to promote sustainable fishing practices and policy in the EU. But don't worry, he often gets called to land by magazines like Esquire, Monocle and en Route for everything from Greek chef highlights to Francis Ford Coppola portraits.

A storyteller above all, Corey Arnold's newly bound body of work, Fish-Work: The Bering Sea (Nazraeli Press), bears the heart and soul of Alaskan crab fisherman as told by one who suffered the hellish and joyous livelihood himself. Fish-Work is also title to his current show hanging in hand-crafted walnut frames at San Francisco's Fecal Face Dot Gallery through February 26th, 2011. Last week, I was fortunate enough to steal Corey away to share breakfast and stories like his boyhood trip overboard or more recent frosbitten thumb in an Eskimo dog-mushing village. Even after traveling seven months out of the year, Corey's eyes are bright as he explains that he will never stop fishing. So let's hear why. - Kirsten Incorvaia.

Read the full interview here.