Agnès Villette is a PhD candidate at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, her practice-based doctorate in Nuclear Aesthetics investigates the Radioactive Ruins of the Norman territory of La Hague. 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. Her PhD project explores the radioactive landscape of La Hague in connection with the Cold War legacy of the French atomic program. She is also a freelance journalist and an educator at Cambrai Art School, in France.