Flocks // Fish Work (Corey Arnold)

Fish-Work is the title of an ongoing life project documenting Corey Arnold's journey as a commercial fisherman in Alaska and his travels abroad exploring fishing cultures around the world. Since 1995, Arnold's worked seasonally as a crab, salmon, cod, and halibut fisherman in Alaska. But it wasn’t until 2002 that he picked up a camera and got serious about telling the story of this unique little world.

"I have a love-hate relationship with commercial fishing. The work is often grueling and mundane, sometimes dangerous and soul crushingly repetitive. But inversely, there is beauty and freedom in the act of manual labor, surrounded by a vast and remote sea wilderness. For a fisherman, the reward is often found in the amazing stories of triumph, disaster, and pride that are brought home to the civilized world. I’ve chosen to tell my story in photographs."