Hélène Binet

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. and the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award in 2015. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Biography

Binet was born in 1959 in Sorengo, Switzerland to Swiss and French parents.

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, the architect Peter Cook, Sauerbruch Hutton, Peter Zumthor, and Josef Paul Kleihues among others, besides publishing books on buildings by Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Sigurd Lewerentz, and Dimitris Pikionis.

Personal life Binet had a house on Osea Island in the River Blackwater Estuary in Essex. She is married to Raoul Bunschoten, and the couple live in London with their two children, Izaak and Saskia Ada.

Publications The Inns of Court. with Jill Allibone, David Evans. Black Dog Publishing Limited, 1996. . Helene Binet: Seven Projects, with Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Mark Rappolt, Shine Gallery. Guiding Light, 2002. . Photographs. Phaidon Inc. Ltd, 2009. . Helene Binet: Composing Space: The Photographs of Helene Binet. Phaidon Press, 2012. .

For architects A passage through silence and light, Daniel Libeskind, Raoul Bunschoten. Black Dog, 1997. . The House of the Book, Peter Cook, Zvi Hecker, John Hejduk. Black Dog, 1999, Architecture of Zaha Hadid in photographs (with Hubertus von Amelunxen), Lars Müller, 2000. Holocaust Mahnmal Berlin: Eisenman Architects, Hanno Rauterberg, Lukas Wassmann. Müller, 2005. .

Awards 1997: Redaksjonell Fotografi from Visuelt 2004: Wissenschaft fur Leben Scholarship, from the Olympus Europa Stiftung 2006: Forum AID Award 2008: Honorary Fellowship of Royal Institute of British Architects 2015: Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award

Collections Binet's work is held in the following permanent collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania