Far From Home
I’ve spent much of my adult life away from home. By home, I mean the place that I keep the majority of my stuff for most of the year. This is the home where my wife, four year old son, two year old daughter, and my beloved red husky now live. My other, more temporary home, where a small amount of my stuff is kept a minority of the year has historically been aboard some sort of fishing vessel or at a salmon set-netting camp in Bristol Bay, Alaska where I work as a commercial fisherman.
During my seasonal adventures at sea, there was plenty of down time to reconsider one’s place in the world. This seasonal escape from the “real world” has its meditative benefits but, not without a certain feeling of loss, especially being far from those we love. While we are not alone on these boats or distant islands, a shared experience of loneliness, the vulnerability of longing bonds us with our fellow crew.
Photography has always been my way of sharing my life at sea with my friends and family back on shore, a way of connecting distant worlds. This exhibition is a collection of images I’ve made over many years, moments of reflection, suffering, adventure, storms, and unlikely beauty far from home.
Corey Arnold
February 2024
I’ve spent much of my adult life away from home. By home, I mean the place that I keep the majority of my stuff for most of the year. This is the home where my wife, four year old son, two year old daughter, and my beloved red husky now live. My other, more temporary home, where a small amount of my stuff is kept a minority of the year has historically been aboard some sort of fishing vessel or at a salmon set-netting camp in Bristol Bay, Alaska where I work as a commercial fisherman.
During my seasonal adventures at sea, there was plenty of down time to reconsider one’s place in the world. This seasonal escape from the “real world” has its meditative benefits but, not without a certain feeling of loss, especially being far from those we love. While we are not alone on these boats or distant islands, a shared experience of loneliness, the vulnerability of longing bonds us with our fellow crew.
Photography has always been my way of sharing my life at sea with my friends and family back on shore, a way of connecting distant worlds. This exhibition is a collection of images I’ve made over many years, moments of reflection, suffering, adventure, storms, and unlikely beauty far from home.
Corey Arnold
February 2024
