Porth Nanven. When I first started photographing Porth Nanven back in 1996 I think I was lucky in that I had never seen any pictures of the beach previously in any format so I had a an almost conceptual ‘blank canvas’ to work with. Finding a way to create unique images and to find our own voice is more important than obsessing over technical details. A ‘perfect’ picture with no soul is just an exercise in technique, a photographic ‘paint by numbers’. more