Fondation Maeght

Aimé and Marguerite Maeght opened this foundation in 1964, on a wooded hill ten minutes' walk above Saint-Paul. Josep Lluís Sert designed the building: pink brick, white concrete and two great curved roof scoops that catch light and read like sails from below. It was made for the art rather than the other way round, and it looks like nothing else on the Riviera.

The outdoor spaces are the ones that photograph. The Giacometti courtyard is a paved rectangle with his elongated bronze figures standing in it, austere and very graphic. The Miró labyrinth on the terrace is the opposite — ceramic, mosaic and sculpture set into a stepped garden of pines and water. Chagall, Braque and Calder are around the grounds too, and the pines give dappled, workable shade all day.

Light here is filtered rather than direct, which suits the white concrete and the bronze. Cloud is fine; hard midday sun is the difficult case, when the courtyard goes contrasty and the sculptures lose their modelling.

This is private, ticketed property with a seasonal calendar and its own conditions for professional photography — including what may be photographed and whether a tripod is allowed. Check with the foundation before it goes into a session plan; the walk up from the village is about ten minutes on a road with no pavement in places.