Hélène Binet

Hélène Binet
Hélène Binet with architect John Hejduk (right) in Prague, 1991
Born	1959 (age 57–58) Sorengo, Switzerland
Residence	London
Occupation	architectural photographer
Website	www.helenebinet.com

Hélène Binet (born 1959) is a Swiss-French architectural photographer based in London, who is also one of the leading architectural photographers in the world. 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.

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 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."

Binet works exclusively with photographic film.

She has worked with Raoul Bunschoten, Caruso St John, David Chipperfield, Tony Fretton, Zaha Hadid, Zvi Hecker, John Hejduk, Coop 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 .