The Store

Center de la photographie de Mougins, La boutique
©Communication Ville de Mougins, 2021

The Mougins Center of Photography has chosen to present in its store products that distinguishes itself from the usual “souvenir shops” in museums. The Center wishes to support artistic creation and not play the card of overconsumption by avoiding the pitfall of gadgets and by favoring the prism of design. The ambition is to address a large public, both in terms of generation and social background, offering a wide range of prices.

The store is open during the exhibition periods :

April – September: 11:00 to 19:00. Closed on Tuesdays Closed on Tuesdays
October – March: 13:00 to 18:00. Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays Closed Monday and Tuesday

Find us at 43, rue de l’église 06250 Mougins.

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© Le Petit Didier, 2025

Cahiers #9

This ninth issue of the Cahiers from the Mougins Center of Photography is dedicated to the work of American photographer Kwame Brathwaite, a key figure of the “Black is beautiful” movement. Through a selection of iconic images from the 1960s and 70s and previously unpublished texts, this publication highlights Brathwaite’s political, cultural, and aesthetic commitment to affirming proud, autonomous representations of Black identity. It also traces the history of the AJASS collective and the Grandassa Models while exploring how images shape collective and transnational visual memory.

Authors: Yasmine Chemali, François Cheval, Kwame S. Brathwaite

Nb of pages: 192
Price: 29€

© Process Éditions, 2025

Sillage
Mustapha Azeroual

Published on the occasion of the artist’s research and experimental residency at the Centre de la photographie de Mougins and the eponymous exhibition at the Espace de l’Art Concret – center d’art contemporain d’intérêt national.

Mustapha Azeroual bases his work on observation and experimentation, confronting historical shooting and printing techniques with contemporary photographic issues. By questioning tools, processes and media, the artist focuses above all on the viewer’s point of view.

Exhibition at the Espace de l’Art Concret in Mouans-Sartoux from 8.03 to 31.08.2025.
Curated by
Yasmine Chemali, François Cheval and Fabienne Grasser-Fulchéri
With support from DRAC-PACA.

Publisher: Process Éditions

Bilingual French and English
Price: €28

© Communication Ville de Mougins
The Centre de la photographie de Mougins supports French photographic publishing through France PhotoBook, a French association of leading independent publishers of photography books.
The production of photography books is particularly rich and diversified in France, and is today an essential market for the creation and dissemination of photography.
France PhotoBook aims to promote and safeguard an ecosystem that is as rich as it is fragile, by preserving unique expertise and encouraging awareness of a sector that has become an essential part of contemporary photographic creation.

To find out more: click here.

Around the exhibition « Beyond the Spectacle »

© Clara Chichin et Sabatina Leccia / Sun

Le bruissement entre les murs
Limited edition of 170 copies, cover in washi paper handmade by Atelier Papetier

Le bruissement entre les murs invites the viewer to wander their gaze in a garden of hybrid images where photography and needle drawing intertwine. With the Montreuil Murs à pêches a backdrop but also as the main driving force, Clara Chichin and Sabatina Leccia wander around and take samples from reality, digging secret galleries between the fantastic aspect of this place which lends itself to daydreaming and its historical aspect and witness to the layers of time – King Louis XIV’s peach fields, market gardening, popular place, gentrified, squeezed by urban sprawl.

The materiality of their collaboration makes it possible to embody the layers of time and perception, between the walls are impalpable energies. The artists provide a sensory map reorienting the understanding of this place. Working at the slow pace of life, this taking of time and on time is a poetic invitation to reclaim politics. Being committed does not come down to denouncing but here, to reconnecting with the sensitive world, to off ering re-enchantment.

Author(s): Clara Chichin and Sabatina Leccia
Publisher: Sun, 2024
Language: French
Pages: 104
Price: €90

© Delpire & co, 2017

Au temps du noir et blanc

Michel Butor is famous for his novels, poems and numerous hybrid texts. But he was also a photographer in the 1950s-1960s, and this facet of the writer is little known, if at all.

The book features a selection of black-and-white images, mainly taken during the author’s many travels, notably to Turkey, Greece, Spain and the United States. In his photographs, Michel Butor focuses on the remarkable elements of monumental architecture – religious edifices and heritage buildings – as well as the spaces of ordinary existence – squares, streets, passageways and homes. He pays particular attention to detail, creating timeless, modern shots of landscapes, architecture and boats, but above all of movement and stillness, life and death – in a word, poetry.

The book includes an introduction by Mireille Calle-Gruber, a specialist in Butor’s work and a close friend of his, as well as the texts he wrote on photography throughout his life. The photos are also accompanied by excerpts from his protean works (Le génie du lieu, Alphabet d’un apprenti…).

Author : Michel Butor
Publisher: Delpire & co, 2017
Language: French
Pages: 312
Price: 28€

© Actes Sud, 2021

Apprendre à voir : le point de vue du vivant

Like Baptiste Morizot, who combines philosophy and natural sciences in the field to reveal new ways of being alive, Estelle Zhong-Mengual works to hybridise art history and the most contemporary naturalist knowledge. Apprendre à voir (Learning to See) is a scholarly yet accessible and fascinating book, intimate in its portrayal of the author’s emotions when faced with a flower or a titmouse. It is a guide that blurs the boundaries between museums and forests, a handbook to carry with you at all times to renew your connection with art and nature, rekindle your sense of wonder and intensify your presence in the world.

Author: Estelle Zhong-Mengual
Publisher: Actes Sud, 2021
Language: French
Pages: 256
Price: €30

Laurence King, 2019

#NoFilter
Get Creative with Photography

#NoFilter is an innovative guide to photography that teaches you how to do without filters and discover creative do-it-yourself techniques with your camera or smartphone.

If you want to add more depth to your photos than simply applying a filter, this is the book for you. It will inspire you and take your practice to the next level, with ideas for all levels, from amateur to professional.

Simple techniques, such as photographing through your sunglasses, progress to more advanced ideas, such as creating solar prints or distorting your images with the contents of your closets. Each technique is concisely explained through superb examples of creative photography, making this book ideal for anyone wishing to perfect their photographic art.

Author : Natalia Price-Carbera
Publisher: Laurence King, 2019
Languages: English
Pages: 144
Price: €17.50

Gaze Magazine, 2025

Gaze magazine issue 11: Ghosts

Gaze is an independent, ad-free magazine that celebrates the female gaze through intimate stories, embodied journalism and lots of photography. La revue est entièrement bilingue français-anglais.

There are things we cannot see, yet they live within us. The voices of mothers, lovers, ancestors, strangers. In this issue, we invite you to meet our ghosts: Manman Dlo, the Caribbean deity who watches over women; a dive into a family home that may well be haunted; An investigation into the most familiar ghosts: absent fathers; Jenny Rova, the artist who decided to haunt her ex; A report from Gaza through the sensitive eyes of a Palestinian journalist; A tribute to Nelly Arcan, the prodigious writer who was rehabilitated after her death…

Collective
Languages : French / English
Price
: €20

© Les Filles de la Photo

Y VOIR CLAIR dans le méli-mélo de la photo

Les Filles de la Photo’s white paper on best practices is the fruit of a wide-ranging process of questioning shared with all players in the photography ecosystem in an original, introspective form. It is the culmination of a rigorous consultation with 33 photographers in the form of individual interviews, and 100 players in the sector at 10 round tables.
Revealing the misunderstandings and mutual incomprehension that undermine talent and project selection processes, this collaborative work reveals the realities and challenges – often poorly understood – of the various stakeholders. It shares virtuous examples and tangible solutions to defuse surprising situations in ten key areas of photography.
Necessary, critical without being moralistic, this white paper compiles recommendations and advice for photographers and decision-makers in the sector. Its ambition is to encourage, in a benevolent and straightforward way, best practices between the various players in the ecosystem, and to make relations more fluid.

Author: Les Filles de la Photo
Edition: self-publishing
Language: French
Pages: 144
Price: €18

© Laurence King

The Women Who Changed Art Forever

These women changed art forever. Told in the form of a colorful graphic novel, this is the story of four pioneers of feminist art: Judy Chicago, Faith Ringold, Ana Mendieta and the Guerilla Girls.
Each of them left her mark in her own way. Judy Chicago made us re-evaluate the female body, Faith Ringold taught us that feminism is for everyone, Ana Mendieta was a martyr to violence against women, while the Guerilla Girls took the fight to the male-dominated museum. This graphic novel tells each of their stories in their own unique style.

Author: Valentina Grande, Eva Rossetti
Publisher: Laurence King
Language: English
Pages: 136
Price: €19.95

Products

© Stimultania, 2026

Les Mots du Clic

New edition!

A citizen tool at the service of image criticism.

Which look is to be taken on an image? Art, press or advertising photography. Printed, displayed, projected. How to talk about it? How to analyze its construction and its address? Les Mots du Clic game was created by Stimultania to question the viewer. Either way it enables to observe, interpret, to get vocabulary and is a civic reflection tool.

Goal of the game : Develop together the critique of a photograph chosen by the players or the mediator and acquire vocabulary.

From 6 years

Publisher: Stimultania, 2026
Language: French
Price: €33

Laurence King, 2022

The Street Photography Challenge
50 tips, tricks and ideas for reinventing your photography

Capture a reflection, play with layers, deliberately blur, or simply try to “photograph nothing”. The Street Photography Challenge is a boxed set of 50 cards, each offering amateur photographers a simple idea for immortalizing superb everyday images. Flip the card over to see an example, and consult the included booklet for more details. The boxed set also contains 10 bonus cards with inspirational quotes and invaluable advice from legends of street photography, from Daido Moriyama to Joel Meyerowitz. Forget lenses, shutter speeds and apertures: grab your camera or phone, pick a card and set off on an adventure!


Publisher
: Laurence King, 2022
Language : English
Price
: €21

Laurence King, 2016

Story Box: Create your own fairy tales
Create your own fairy tales!

This story box comes with 20 puzzle pieces printed on both sides so you can create a story with endless twists and turns. Let your children explore their inner storyteller with this beautifully illustrated interactive puzzle. Perfect for developing narrative and sequencing skills, you choose to tell a different story every time you play!

Publisher: Laurence King, 2016
Language: English
Price: €18

Pyramyd

The art match

Game consisting of 50 cards + an explanatory booklet with short biographies of the artists in the game.

Based on the principle of an enhanced battle, The Art Match features 50 cards, each displaying 50 major figures from the world of modern and contemporary art. Each card contains 6 criteria (Influence, Novelty shock, Versatility, Maximum selling price, Critical reception, Beauty factor), to which points are assigned. Players can pit the influence of Andy Warhol against that of Jackson Pollock, or the aestheticism of Sonia Delaunay against that of Sophie Calle.
Appealing to adults and children alike, The Art Match is the ideal game for all art lovers!

Author: James Cahill, Holly Black. Illustrated by Mikkel Sommer
Publisher: Pyramyd
Language: French
Price: €14.95

Pyramyd

All aboard, Simone!

A 7-family game with 42 cards.

Do you know Simone Louise de Pinet de Borde des Forest? This pioneering woman took her driving test in 1929, at the age of 19, and went on to become one of the world’s first racing drivers. It was her first name that inspired the expression “En voiture, Simone!”, which generations of drivers have uttered as they started their engines.
To pay tribute to this astonishing Simone and to all the men and women who have taken to new roads and new paths, this game introduces you to 7 families of travelers.
By car, but also by bicycle, motorcycle, airplane, ski lift, horseback and ski: the members of the 7 families in this game have decided to see the country! Who will be able to put the most families back together?
Made from anonymous photographs, this game will take you on a journey through moving memories of vacations and family discoveries.

Created by Sylvie Meunier
Edition: Pyramyd
Language: French
Price: €16.90

© Pyramid

L’Oracle féministe

Par : Pyramyd

Explore your path with advice from 50 extraordinary women
Game consisting of 50 cards and booklet

50 iconic women, chosen for their extraordinary careers or their commitment, are honored. Be guided and motivated by the world’s most inspiring women with this creative set of oracle cards. Need advice on breaking the glass ceiling? These tips are drawn from their lives and thoughts, developed in the accompanying booklet.
Some historical figures and many contemporary ones, in the fields of politics, sport, art, activism… Des femmes de tous les continents sont ainsi représentées.

Price: €18.90

© MarieJeanne

MarieJeanne’s scents

are carefully selected and created in Grasse, France, and are involved in all stages of production, from the origin of the natural raw materials to the final fragrance. Its creator, Georges Maubert, is part of the fifth generation of the Robertet company, world leader in natural raw materials. Since 1850, his family has been working in the perfume industry, as farmers, chemists, perfumers, and sourcers. The craft is also valued by entrusting French glassblowers with the production of the glassware.

Price : 55€

© Emma Tarea

Kit cartes Cyanotype + Maxi Kit. Emma Tarea

By: Emma Tarea

The cyanotype is an old photographic process invented in 1842. It works by applying a solution directly to the paper to make it photosensitive. The paper is then exposed to the sun’s rays, which give it its blue tint once the image has been rinsed. The parts that have been obscured with objects, negatives or cut-out paper remain white.
Suitable for children aged 5 and over and entirely handmade by Emma Tarea in her studio in Nice, the small kit (15 x 15 cm) contains 7 ready-to-use sheets, the maxi kit (30 x 30 cm) 6 sheets, and both come with instructions.

Price: 18€ and 27€

© Formcard
FORMcard

By: Peter Marigold

Formcard is a plastic card that you can easily shape for a multitude of uses. This handy, sturdy little pocket card will enable you to personalize, repair and decorate a multitude of objects. Simply drop it into a cup of hot water and it’s ready to use. The only limit is your creativity! Made from bioplastic, this card is the Swiss Army Knife of all things!

Price: 8€ (pack of three)

© Communication Ville de Mougins, 2021
The Strom collection by Raawii

By : Nicholai Wiig-Hansen

Inspired by the cubism of the early 20th century, Nicholai Wiig-Hansen contributes to Raawii’s production through experimental drawing and modelling techniques. The result is a refined simplicity, geometric shapes and colors applied to functional objects of everyday life. The result is a refined simplicity, geometric shapes and colors applied to functional objects of everyday life.

Price: from €67 to €110