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Born December 5th, 1944 in Casablanca to a mother originally from the city of Algiers and to a father from Rabat, Yves Jeanmougin left Marocco with his family in 1956.
After working for seven years at the VIVA agency he had joined from its beginning in 1973 side by side with its founders, and where he worked on stories as various as the French army, Third World families, the Indians of Quebec, the working children of Naples, Pigalle… Yves Jeanmougin decided to move out of Paris and work in a personal way far from the great artistic movements.
In 1980, he chose to live in Marseille where he works alone or with a group on many of his major stories, starting from the different communities living in the Phocaean city, the building designed by Le Corbusier, the borough of Belsunce, the prison of the Beaumettes and ending with a purer vision of this gate opened on the Mediterranean which he will cross and regain his roots on the other side of the sea.
This approach, ingrained in the hearts of the cities and of the men living there, brought together in 1990 Yves Jeanmougin and choregrapher François Verret, who was seeking for the same confrontation,and they worked for nearly a decade on film Censures (Beaumettes), abandonned dockyards in la Seyne-sur-Mer, abandonned day camp in Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing), Mulhouse, Aubervilliers…
From 1995 to 1996, he put his cameras aside to shoot a documentary on handicap.
Early 1997, Yves Jeanmougin rediscovered his native town which became the center of his work.
In 1998, in Marseille, he met Philippe Foulquié who strives to keep up the Friche la Belle de Mai and invited him to live in residence years after coordinating his first exhibition (1973). Great opportunity for Yves Jeanmougin to work with other artists and writers* on stories on the Mediterranean sea, with the help of the association Métamorphoses and of his workshop deeply involved on Maroc, médina, médinas (1999); Carcérales, pages et images de prison (2001); Curumi, naissance d’un spectacle (2002); Déliés, une descendance algérienne (2005); Algériens, frères de sang -Jean Sénac, lieux de mémoire (2005); Casablanca (2007)…
* Abdelhak Serhane, René Frégni, Charles Gouvernet, Christiane Véricel, Maïssa Bey, Laurence Huet, Leïla Sebbar, Youssef Fadel, Paul Balta…