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Emma Delves-Broughton, often listed along-side the likes of Ellen Von UnWerth and Bob Carlos Clarke, shot the image above in The Japanese Room. If you are interested in using The General Stores for a photo or video shoot, please contact postmaster@millendmitcheldean.co.uk with details of when, for what, for how long, special requirements etc, and we will give you a price.

Emma Delves-Broughton - on herself and her work :

I first started to photograph strong, sexy women during the early nineties. My work was first featured in Skin Two magazine and Amateur Photographer in 1998. This was shortly followed by my first solo exhibition entitled "Lipstick & Lashes" at the f-stop gallery in Bath and later that year at the Skin Two Rubber Ball.

I work within the world of portraiture, fetish, fashion and beauty. I originally specialized in Black & White photography, using a very wide range of techniques encompassing toning and hand tinting on fibre based papers, though now I am equally at home with Colour Photography, which feature strongly in my fashion and beauty work. Attention to detail is very important to me, which stems from my experience as a make-up artist and stylist. Clients include clothes and lingerie designers and hairdressers.

Most of my subjects are women. They are much more relaxed in front of a camera, and much more willing to be photographed, so for me it seems the obvious choice. As I’m a woman myself, I automatically have an empathy with other woman, I’m not actually trying to pull them, so they can feel relaxed and enjoy themselves in front of the camera. At the same time, knowing what it’s like to be a woman, and to feel sexy in tight or revealing clothing helps.

I do photograph men as well, though not as much. I’m very select about which men I would want to work with. There are only about three men that I work with on a regular basis, and each of them are very different, though all equally keen to be photographed.

My work has been published in a variety of magazines, such as Skin Two, Marquis, Erotic Review, Front, GQ, Maxim, Amateur Photographer and Practical Photography. Many of my images have been used as covers for Virgin Books, and have also contributed to a series of books called Masterpieces of Erotica, and Erotic Fantasy Photography by Carlton Books, including one of the cover pictures.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Location: England
Email: emma@emmadelvesbroughton.com
Website: www.emmadelvesbroughton.com

BOOKS: Kinky Couture

PRINT SALES & INFORMATION
Yes - contact artist directly to purchase fine art prints.

EXHIBITION LIST
08-04 Book - Kinky Couture

Stephen Scott-Hayward and Alex Kirkland, shooting their next short, feature film at The General Stores. Winners of DepicT! 2003 with 'Le Cheval 2.1' (www.depict.org/content/films/2003/index.html), they have the following tips for DepicT! entrants:

Ok so you want to make a 90 second short film?

First think of a simple story i.e. 'It's a man who wants to be a horse but is actually a cow' then enthused with your idea open a document and write it. Use wonderfully descriptive wording, poetic sentences and deep, profound dialogue, then realise you have written a 5 minute verbose story.

Condense what you have written into 90 seconds, getting down to the necessary bare bones, thus deleting any lines of any philosophical merit (sadly, this means getting rid of some of the most valued sentences such as 'I laugh at the cows as they stand around like..like sheep').

Good. Once you have nailed the story, get it shot.

Now, upon constructing your shot list, you may find that you have enough shots for a short feature film. This is fine, as long as you have 3 months in the edit, which for many people will be no problem (us included).

Also, you may find that you have included quite a few crane shots, or high altitude aircraft perspective shots or even guns and explosions. Not saying for a moment that any of these things are unnecessary, or indeed unattainable, but with 'Le Cheval', we found the skydiving shots, mountain climbing and lizard wrestling scenes felt too contrived, and thus decided to keep to the simple running shots.

You will need an actor, or you could persuade a valued member of the crew to don a suit and run, run like the wind.

When deciding to shoot a French film in French it is advisable to secure the services of someone who speaks French. We thought about this and decided to use a Frenchman.

In summary, to quote from the now famous French vocal actor Franck Delannoy when discussing Depict! Films:

"C'est mieux si c'est simple"

For those that need to know, it was shot on Mini DV and cost £30 in total, this includes the suit, tape and petrol to Wiltshire, and the wonderful music was composed and played by Adam Coombs.

The introduction of the web streaming was a nice touch this year, as was being able to read the reviews that people posted. (Our favourite was the woman that thought that there wasn't enough difference between horses and cows to be funn. Genius.)

Winning the competition was fantastic as was the response following it. We have got a distribution deal with Dazzle films, the film has been broadcast on BBC3 and we appeared at Aspen shorts fest. There was something wonderfully surreal about being flown to America to show our 90-second short alongside the cream of the short film world - bizarre. 'Le Cheval:2.1' is still being requested for film festivals around the world and we still receive about two requests for it a week nearly a year later.

Most recently it was short-listed and went on to win the Supershorts competition in London. We are currently working on several shorts and are in the process of signing for Pallmall pictures - a new Production company in London - with a view to writing surrealist viral adverts.

Festivals and Awards:

Le Cheval:2.1(2003)
Brief Encounters Depict 2003: Winner.
Super Shorts UK 2004: Winner
Aspen Shorts Fest 2004: Finalist
Mountain Film Telluride 2004: Finalist.
Submerge 2004: 2nd place for creativity
Kendal Mountain Festival 2004: special mention
Leeds International Film Festival Best of British 2004:Finalist
Fike Portugal 2004:Finalist
Washington Guerrilla Film Fest 2005:Finalist
Montréal/Just For Laughs/Comedia/Eat My Shorts 2005:Finalist

La Descente (2004)
Nokia Shorts 2004 (15 second version): Finalist
Aspen Shorts Fest 2005: Finalist.
Mountain Film Telluride: Finalist.
Crested Butte Reel Fest 2005:Finalist
Montréal/Just For Laughs/Comedia/Eat My Short 2005:Finalist

GASH (2004)
BBC3 Mini Masterpieces 2004
Aspen Shorts Fest 2005: Finalist.
Montréal/Just For Laughs/Comedia/Eat My Shorts 2005:Finalist

OEDIPUS (2005)
Montréal/Just For Laughs/Comedia/Eat My Shorts 2005:Finalist

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