Hélène Binet

Hélène Binet (center) with John Hejduk (right) in 1991 in Prague

Hélène Binet (born July 25, 1959 in Sorengo , Ticino ) is a Swiss photographer .

Life

Binet grew up in Rome , where she also studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design . She then worked as a photographer at the Grand Théâtre de Genève for two years before turning to architectural photography .

The photographer lives today (2011) on Osea Island , an island in the mouth of the River Blackwater in the English county of Essex .

In the past decades, Binet has worked as a photographer with many internationally known architects and other artists. These included Raoul Bunschoten , David Chipperfield , Zaha Hadid , Zvi Hecker , John Hejduk , Josef Paul Kleihues , Daniel Libeskind , Edmund de Waal and Peter Zumthor .

with Iwan Baan : Zaha Hadid : Heydar Aliyev Center . Lars Müller Verlag, Baden, Switzerland 2013, ISBN 978-3-03778-353-5 .
Sigrid Hauser, Peter Zumthor : Peter Zumthor - Therme Vals. Photos by Hélène Binet. Scheidegger and Spiess, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-85881-704-4 .
Edmund de Waal . Texts by Jorunn Veiteberg and Helen Waters, Kettle's Yard / mimo 2007.
Composing Space - The Photographs of Hélène Binet . Phaidon, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7148-6119-7 .
with others: Peter Eisenman : Holocaust Memorial Berlin . Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-03778-059-2 .
The secret of the shadow: light and shadow in architecture. Exhibition catalog, photography Hélène Binet. Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-8030-0622-8 .
Jewish Museum, Berlin / Danel Libeskind. G + B Arts International, Amsterdam 1999, ISBN 90-5701-252-9 .
Peter Zumthor: Houses 1979–1997. Photos Hélène Binet. Birkhäuser, Basel 1999, ISBN 3-7643-6098-4 .
Peter Cook : The House of the Book: Zvi Hecker . Photos Hélène Binet. Black Dog Publishing, London 1997, ISBN 1-901033-15-5 .

Commons : Hélène Binet - collection of images, videos and audio files