Hélène Binet

b. 1959, Switzerland

Swiss photographer, born 1959

Hélène Binet lives and works in London. She studied photography at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Rome. Over a period of twenty-five years Hélène Binet has photographed both contemporary and historical architecture, including the work of architects Caruso St John, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, and Peter Zumthor, as well as the works of past architects Alvar Aalto, Geoffrey Bawa, Le Corbusier, John Hejduk, Sigurd Lewerentz and Dimitris Pikionis. Binet is the recipient of the 2019 Ada Louise Huxtable Prize, awarded to a woman who has made a major contribution to architecture, and is one of the Royal Photographic Society’s Hundred Heroines.