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.[1][2] 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.[3]

Hélène Binet
Hélène Binet in Prague, 1991
Born1959 (age 63–64)
Sorengo, Switzerland
Occupationarchitectural photographer
Websitewww.helenebinet.com

Binet was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2008[3] and the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award in 2015.[4][5] Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York[6] and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[7]

Biography
Museum of World Culture, photographed by Binet.

Binet was born in 1959 in Sorengo, Switzerland to Swiss and French parents.[8] She studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, where she grew up.[2] 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,[3] encouraged by architect, Daniel Libeskind, who believed, "she exposes architecture’s achievements, strength, pathos and fragility."[2]

Binet works exclusively with photographic film.[8]

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.[3][9]

Personal life

Binet had a house on Osea Island in the River Blackwater Estuary in Essex.[10] She is married to Raoul Bunschoten, and the couple live in London with their two children, Izaak and Saskia Ada.[3][8]

Publications
  • The Inns of Court. with Jill Allibone, David Evans. Black Dog Publishing Limited, 1996. ISBN 0952177315.
  • Helene Binet: Seven Projects, with Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Mark Rappolt, Shine Gallery. Guiding Light, 2002. ISBN 0953845133.
  • Photographs. Phaidon Inc. Ltd, 2009. ISBN 0714849421.
  • Helene Binet: Composing Space: The Photographs of Helene Binet. Phaidon Press, 2012. ISBN 0714861197.
For architects
  • A passage through silence and light, Daniel Libeskind, Raoul Bunschoten. Black Dog, 1997. ISBN 0952177358.
  • 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. ISBN 3037780592.

Awards

Collections

Binet's work is held in the following permanent collections:

References
  1. Glancey, Jonathan (15 April 2002). "The dream life of buildings". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 May 2011. ..Hélène Binet is one of the world's finest architectural photographers..
  2. "Ten questions for photographer Hélène Binet". Phaidon. December 6, 2012. Retrieved May 22, 2013. ..one of the world's leading architectural photographers. ..
  3. "RIBA Honorary Fellowships 2008: Hélène Binet". Archived from the original on 2013-06-16.
  4. "See the Work of Hélène Binet in a New Exhibition". Architectural Digest. 28 February 2015. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  5. "Hélène Binet awarded". tlmagazine.com. 17 March 2015. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
  6. "Peter Zumthor - MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  7. "Therme Vals Diptychon". Carnegie Museum of Art.
  8. "Hélène Binet Photographer". www.helenebinet.com.
  9. James Cartwright (15 January 2013). "Hélène Binet is a master at capturing the world's most beautiful buildings". Its Nice That. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  10. "Everything you need to know about Osea Island, the A-list bolthole Rihanna has reportedly rented". uk.style.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
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