Bang Disco, London, in October 1976. He worked at London hotspots such as Leigh Bowery's Taboo, publishing his photography in publications such as i-D, Dazed & Confused, V-Man, Vision, XLR8R, Fused, The Observer Magazine, The Independent Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and The Sunday Times Magazine, among others. Hartnett's access to non-mainstream alternative spaces offered a view into a previously unseen part of this undocumented subculture. Although his work was journalistic in approach, he claims he has always attempted to capture real life from a moral perspective, saying, 'I tend not to take photographs that are in any way manipulative or exploitative. When I have, for example, photographed someone who has been drunk or drug-fucked, I will often edit these out of a presentation as they can be demeaning. I do not do nudes. Sometimes I have photographed dancers who look so lost, and these images tend not to get published as I feel a camera can be invasive and that is not my intention. I feel very protective about my subjects.' Hartnett regularly documents London Fashion Week, Graduate Fashion Week, Free Range, plus music festivals, with his favourite being the annual Rebellion Punk Festival. As a collector of vintage photography, Hartnett has until very recently been a major contributor to the Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive, with his work now represented by Lee Dalton at Photoshot / Avalon. His broadcasting work has included MTV, VH1, RTL, BBC, Channel 4 and Discovery / TLC. Awards and honours Hartnett has won a North West Arts Award. In 2007, Hartnett was also declared winner of The Manchester Monologues Manchester Metropolitan University Literary Competition, in collaboration with Urbis Offcut at The Manchester Fringe Festival. References External links An interview at Bent Magazine 'Hartnett returns and has the Catholic church in his sights' at Vada Magazine An interview at The Independent Feature at Reflekt Magazine London Fashion Week photography by PP Hartnett writing as Paul Hartnett in Metro 'Sexual abuse addressed in a new novel' at Telegraph & Argus 'Hartnett: Raw Power, Real Fiction' at Vada Magazine 'From Fashion Week to Fiction Freak' at Fused magazine 'Interview with PP Hartnett' (pp.82-88) at GCN 'Poetry and Predators | PP Hartnett' at Northern Life Magazine 'The collected works of author PP Hartnett' at WhatsOn 'book review: date of birth, time of death: pp hartnett' at Gscene 'Haworth man attacks "failings" of Catholic school after former priest