Architecture has long had an intimate relationship with photography. It is through photography that many of us first encounter great architecture. And for any practice, large or small, it is vital: we all rely on this one art form to portray the art form we’ve been crafting.

As with fashion photography (another art-on-art double-take), the architectural photographer has become something of a niche cultural figure, with a few so revered that their images are as fêted as the architecture they capture.

也许到达这个万神殿的终极神是Hélène Binet，这位瑞士出生的伦敦摄影师是目前在皇家学院举办的回顾展的主题，该回顾展将持续到1月23日。

Entitled Light Lines: The Architectural Photographs of Hélène Binet, the exhibition features works from across her career. It explores her collaborations with different architects over a period of more than 35 years with mostly photographs of buildings by the great and the good, some still practising and many who have passed away: from Peter Zumthor and Zaha Hadid to Le Corbusier, Sverre Fehn and Gottfried Böhm.

The exhibition seems to imply she chooses her architects rather than the other way round. I know this first-hand.

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