ANDY KYLE
sends pictures to the South West News Service who distribute them to newspapers and magazines. Pictures which have made the nationals include the fire at Kittery Court and James Dyson’s £100 million Nahlin yacht – the same yacht used for the Royal Cruise in 1936 by King Edward VIII and Wallace Simpson - which were printed in the Daily Mail; and a stunning shot of a double rainbow, which was snapped up by The Telegraph, The Times and Daily Mail. “We get emails from people all
over the world who have visited the website. After a San Francisco newspaper translated an article on the
Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and Daily Express. As a picture editor for 20 years he covered monumental events such as the millennium, Princess Diana’s death and the attack on New York’s Twin Towers. During this time he met his wife
helen, who ran the London office of the French picture news agency Sygma, now Corbis. The couple have been together 12 years and married two and a half years ago. After 20 years on the picture
desks Andy started freelancing again, combining his photography with Internet research to generate story ideas. It was during this time the couple started to look to the South West.
Visiting the website means that just because you go home, you don’t have to leave Dartmouth.
double rainbow picture we had a lot of Vietnamese people writing in to tell me how much they liked it – apparently rainbows are very spiritual in Vietnam.” Andy is from Eversley in Hampshire
and, following work experience on the camberley news in 1972 at the age of 16, cut his teeth as a press photographer with an apprenticeship at the Farnham Herald. During four years at the Farnham Herald, and the Reading Evening Post, he won the Under 21s Press Photographer of the Year award twice - an accolade that introduced him to Fleet Street picture editors, which helped him with contacts when he went freelance in 1976. On his first day as a freelancer his picture of Princess Margaret leaving hospital made the front page of the Daily Mirror. After six years of freelancing, Andy moved onto the picture desks of the
Andy said: “After a year freelancing from home in Cricklewood, North London – looking out of a back room onto a fence – we realised we could do this anywhere. The Internet opened up a whole new world of opportunities, although when we first arrived in Dartmouth in July 2003 we had to get a satellite dish installed for a faster connection.” Andy and Helen were looking for somewhere to live in south Devon and “by fortuitous accident” found a place in Dartmouth to rent whilst looking around. “But after three weeks in Dartmouth
we wondered why we were looking elsewhere. Dartmouth is such a special place – incredibly friendly and our social life here is far, far better than in London or Hampshire. People who live here are really interesting and, although the town slows down a little in winter, it
Andy specialises in pictures
portraying the weather, boats, architecture and trains in the town and has had many people approach him as “the guy who takes the photos” in the street. He plans to develop the website
further and make it more searchable, so people can search for individual boats etc.
As you can imagine, Andy wears
cameras out very fast and, although he is always buying new ones, he sticks to Nikon cameras and lenses. His prime garden location has been used recently for magazine photo shoots with Monty Halls and Paul and Rachel Chandler – the panoramic view providing the perfect backdrop. To see this wonderful view, and the many photographs from it, visit the website at www.
theviewfromthedartmouthoffice.com
never dies.” “And the winter, in many ways, produces better photographs for the website.” The website was started in 2009 and
has built into a wonderful archive of Dartmouth daily life. “A lot of people like seeing what’s happening in Dartmouth, including second home owners and visitors who like to keep up to date with what’s going on while they’re not here. “Visiting the website means that just because you go home, you don’t have to leave Dartmouth. It’s a daily record of life in, on, around and above this wonderful town.”
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