Background
Hélène Binet was born in 1959 in Sorengo, Switzerland to Swiss and French parents. She studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, where she grew up.
Hélène Binet was born in 1959 in Sorengo, Switzerland to Swiss and French parents. She studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, where she grew up.
She is most known for her work with architects Daniel Libeskind, Peter Zumthor and Zaha Hadid, and has published books on works of several architects. She has worked with Raoul Bunschoten, Caruso Street John, David Chipperfield, Tony Fretton, Zaha Hadid, Zvi Hecker, John Hejduk, Cooperative(s) Himmelb(l)au, Daniel Libeskind, Peter Cook Sauerbruch Hutton, Peter Zumthor, Josef Paul Kleihues and many others, besides publishing books on buildings by Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Sigurd Lewerentz, and Dimitris Pikionis. Hélène Binet is an advocate of analogue photography and therefore she exclusively works with film.