Hélène Binet

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.

Hélène Binet studied at Istituto Europeo di Design. The recorded working language is Italian, French and English. The field of work recorded is photography, architecture and landscape photography. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

• Name — Hélène Binet • Born — 1959 • Birthplace — Sorengo, Switzerland • Occupation — architectural photographer • Website — www.helenebinet.com

• Illustration — Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden (Hélène Binet photograph) • Illustration — Binet exhibition at the Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China 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, 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.

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.

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