This is a photo I took of Corey Arnold forever ago when he came to speak to my college about his photography.  With my final portfolio, work and now commercial photography jobs, I didn’t have the time to edit them!  I went to his talk with Tory and afterwards bought his book, Fish-Work: The Bering Sea, which is a beautiful book.  I met him after his presentation and asked if it would be okay for me to take his portrait the next morning since I would be part of the group of students whose work he was going to critique.  I was so nervous!  He said yes, and the next morning I went to the grocery store and bought some fish to use in the shoot.  I didn’t want the fish to be too obvious of a prop, so I also brought a salmon coloured sheet for a backdrop (to have a little play on words about his profession), as well while taking his portrait I asked him to look angry, or “crabby” in one of the images, so that I could title the portrait “crab”.  The photoshoot was a lot of fun, and I had the help of Orquidea Del Rio, and Adriano Ciampoli to ensure that it ran smoothly.  It was a pretty basic set-up (which was good since I had about 10 minutes to prepare), but I’m really happy with the images.  Here is one of my favourites.  

Corey was a lot of fun to work with, and was really accomodating to any of the ideas that I had for the shoot.  In this shot he has the fish on each of his fingers held up in front of his hand to make it look like a make-shift beard.

If you haven’t already, you should head over to his website and check out his work.  It’s really quite beautiful.  www.coreyfishes.com