Based in between France and the UK, Agnès Villette is a PhD candidate at Winchester School of Art, her practice based doctorate in Nuclear Aesthetics investigates the Radioactive Ruins of the Norman territory of La Hague. She is also a freelance journalist with an art practice in photography. Trained in literature, she gained an Agrégation in Modern Literature at Paris Sorbonne and a Master in Art Photography at London College of Communication, London. She has previously taught in British universities, such as Glasgow University, Queen Mary College, London and Winchester University and is currently a lecturer in Visual Culture at Cambrai Art Schoool, in the North of France. Along her PhD project, she is currently developing three art projects at the intersection of photography, writing and theory, such as the photographic series Alien of the Species exploring invasive insects and entomology, Beta Bunker, and finally Landemer, a non fiction novel based on a cold case that took place in 1969, in Cherbourg. Together with Kyveli Marvrokordopoulou, she has recently been developing some Toxic Tours around nuclear sites in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.