Agnès Villette


Agnès Villette has lived in London for the past twenty years, she is working as a freelance journalist and photographer. She has been working for several magazines, such as Wallpaper, The Independent, M Le Monde, Gastronomical, Neon, Grand Seigneur, Wedemain, Citizen K magazine, publishing features covering eclectic subjects. Self taught, she has developed a photographic body of work around her writing. With time, the photographic projects gained more autonomy and led her to realise reportages involving travelling to various countries (European monasteries, visiting Liberland, the latest libertarian state in the Balkans or a mining digital farm in Switzerland). She mainly photographs with analogue medium format.
Her publications cover a wide range of subjects: from alternative modes of living, landscapes' transformations, eccentric traditions. She is mainly interested in the tension between familiar spaces and the uncanny. Her writing and her photographic work are mainly approached through territories and people. She has also been part of experimental reviews, such as Dust, or Revue 9/9, and for ten years was part of the editorial team of Bilbok magazine, review for which she produced more experimental features and photographic projects.
She is also a literature teacher, gaining an agrégation of literature, she taught for thirteen years at the French Lycée in London. She also taught in British universities, at Glasgow University and Queen Mary College in London, where she created a creative writing workshop. In Reims and Dunkerque Art Schools, she organized various workshops.