Kyle's image of striped bass won the first prize in the 2010 North Carolina Aquariums 2010 photography contest. His photograph will soon be featured in the aquarium web site and publications.
Kyle's photograph of the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge was a winner in the 2010 WECT-TV photo calendar contest.
Kyle's work has been included in Telling Our Stories, a travelling photo exhibit created by the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. The exhibit is making 34 stops through December 2009.
Kyle's photograph of Pleasant Oaks Plantation was awarded second prize in the 2009 North Carolina Coastal Federation photography contest.
Kyle had several images included in the recent Achromatics show at Bottega Gallery in Wilmington, NC.
KYLE HUMPHREY is a 20 year old photographer and film maker living on the North Carolina coast. His interest in creating images may have begun on a summer evening in 2004 when the crew of the television teen drama One Tree Hill set up for filming on the beach near his home. Soon after that, Kyle became an apprentice at AMVF Productions, a small film production company. He also began working as an extra, appearing in several episodes of One Tree Hill as well as the NBC science fiction series Surface.
Over the next couple of years, Kyle had small parts in independent films, took classes in film production at The University of North Carolina - Wilmington, and worked as a film editor at Past Present Future Digital, Inc. He wrote and directed a documentary film on the Wilmington Race Riots of 1898, which took first place in the local competition for National History Day. He also directed a film for the Final Cut Film Festival.
During the summer of 2006, Kyle worked full time at the Anderson-Capron Art Gallery in Wrightsville Beach. At the end of the summer, he invested his entire earnings in camera equipment, and he has been a passionate photographer ever since. In March 2008, he had the first gallery showing of his work at WHQR Gallery in downtown Wilmington. A few months later, he won first prize in the North Carolina Our State Magazine photo contest.
Kyle has studied filmmaking at New York University, and in the fall of 2009, Kyle begins studying photography at Savannah College of Art and Design.
