His work explores man's relationship with the natural world, animals, and environmental issues with a primary focus on the Alaskan wilderness.
I love to photograph the creatures that we encounter: seabirds, marine mammals, octopus, the waves, the weather and the men and woman who live for it.
[2] Two years into his career as a Bering Sea fisherman, the Discovery Channel show Deadliest Catch began filming.
Arnold appears in Season Two of Deadliest Catch, and one of his photographs ran on a billboard in Times Square advertising the show.
[10] Two books on Arnold's work have been published by Nazraeli Press: a 2011 monograph entitled Fish-Work: The Bering Sea and a 2011 titled Fishing with My Dad 1978–1995.
[12] Arnold has worked seasonally as a commercial fisherman in Alaska since 1995, including seven years of crabbing in the Bering Sea aboard the f/v Rollo.