Hélène Binet

"Photography is a very, very simple experience. It really is. You have the palette up there so it’s about you saying yes or no."

"I shoot only on film and plate. I don’t touch digital. There are many reasons: mentally it’s very different to work with film. It’s expensive, it’s heavy, so you have to prepare. It’s precious and every photograph you have to say yes! It’s now! Theres no fiddling about and fixing it later. I really believe the soul of photography is its relationship with the instant."

"In the end, what I do is about feeling. Certain buildings, certain architects generate a strong emotion. It is hard to explain, but, if am I lucky, I can find this feeling, these emotions, slowly and quietly in the darkroom when my pictures come to light."

"She is an artist who is successful at the extraordinarily difficult task of capturing a building without flattening it or turning it into yet another pretty picture. Her work reveals architectures inner intensity by materialising the phenomenon of light, texture and density, all within a composition that is wholly conceptual."

"Shadow is an amazing subject. Shadow is an absence. As an absence of energy you can compare it to silence or maybe cold air....We talk about photography being simple and architecture being complex and how do you convey something that is more deep, that allows you to dream or think This is weird so you start to dream and think and you maybe go out purely from the picture but into yourself. The light and the shadow are tools to allow you to do that."