So this guy is a legitimate friend-of-a-friend (he went to high school with a good friend of mine). And I was first introduced to his work over a year ago when my friend said... "Hey! I know that guy on TV!" while we were watching the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch. Soon after, she found a webpage that had some of his amazing photos from crab fishing. It was cool, then I forgot.
Here's his fellow crewmates from the Rollo:
Well...
Now Corey has gone and made a name for himself!
No longer just a cool guy playing around and being goofy on a crab boat, his work has matured, and he's gotten noticed by corporate clients, publishers, art galleries, and curators!
This season The Discovery Channel hired Corey to photograph all the crab boat captains that they are featuring this season (you may have seen the billboards or and other ads). He has several current and upcoming gallery exhibitions, and he even won a major grant to help him pursue his project of photographing the modern commercial fisherman.
He recently got a new website and blog up and running where he has broken down his projects into 4 categories: Fish-work Behring Sea, Fish-work Norway, Arcticness, and Human Animals.
All his work is pretty amazing, so you should check it out.
It is beautiful:
Difficult:
Funny:
Absurd:
Joyous:
And much, much more!
Corey currently has work up at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica as well as a show in New York and some public art works in Canada.
To what else Corey is up to...
Check out his website's info page.
Also, he recently did a piece for another blog where he talked about his years long adventure getting into the industry and making it onto a crab boat (It's a good piece... you should read it).
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