Hélène Binet

Over a career spanning more than four decades, photographer Hélène Binet has captured both contemporary and historic architecture, creating an extraordinary visual narrative. Many of her photographic works are presented for the first time in this volume. The monograph includes two extensive critical essays: Marco Iuliano, curator of the 'Architectural Photographers' series for Lund Humphries, explores Hélène Binet's journey, from her childhood in Italy to her early fascination with the work of Lucien Hervé, to her collaborations with leading figures in architecture such as Daniel Libeskind, John Hejduk and Zaha Hadid. Martino Stierli, co-author of the book and chief curator of architecture and design at MoMA New York, frames Binet's work within contemporary architectural photography, highlighting two central tensions: the attempt to translate spatial phenomena into the two-dimensionality of the image and the search for a poetic synthesis between light and the surface of buildings.

Speakers: Hélène Binet, photographer; and Marco Iuliano, curator of the 'Architectural Photographers' series for Lund Humphries