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Video: The world through the lens of photographer Corey Arnold

Photographer and commercial fisherman Corey Arnold has made it his life's work to document fishing culture. From his years crabbing on the Bering Sea to life at an abandoned cannery in Graveyard Point in Bristol Bay, Arnold focuses on the playful and the often surreal and extreme scenarios commercial fishermen find themselves in.

Giant waves, predatory birds, mounds of rope and bloody fish make for pictures Arnold thinks of as "curiosities."

"You don't always know what going on, or there's something a little off, strange or something mysterious," says Arnold. "I think that's my goal when I'm taking photos... to create something that the viewer wants to know more about what's going on. The whole story's not totally there."

Read more: Capturing a pop-up town: Corey Arnold's images of Graveyard Point

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