Malcolm Frank Venville is a British photographer and film director. Venville was the child of deaf parents. He was, in the words of his uncle, "caught in some no-man's land between the deaf world and the hearing world." Venville atteneded Solihull College and Polytechnic of Central London, graduating with honors with a BA in film, video, and photographic arts. Breaking out with a campaign for Wrangler in 1991, he became an acclaimed and sought-after advertising and fashion photographer. In 1992, he began directing commercials, starting with an advertisement for Audi. Venville published two books of photography. Layers is a collection of Venville's advertising, celebrity, fashion, and personal photography. Lucha Loco is a collection of over a hundred portraits of lucha libre wrestlers taken on a 2005 trip to Mexico. His short film career began with Silent Film, an 11 minute film documenting the romance of his deaf parents. 

1962 in Birmingham