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.
She worked as a photographer at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, an opera house in Geneva, Switzerland, where she photographed various performances for two years, before turning to architectural photography, encouraged by architect, Daniel Libeskind, who believed, " she exposes architecture’s achievements, strength, pathos and fragility." She was awarded the Redaksjonell Fotografi from Visuelt, 1997, Wissenschaft fur Leben Scholarship, 2004 from the Olympus Europa Stiftung, Forum Agency for International Development Award 2006, and Honorary Fellowship of Royal Institute of British Architects, 2008.
