[8] She studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, where she grew up.

[2] She worked as a photographer at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, an opera house in Geneva, Switzerland, where she photographed various performances for two years, before turning to architectural photography,[3] encouraged by architect, Daniel Libeskind, who believed, "she exposes architecture’s achievements, strength, pathos and fragility.

[8] She has worked with Raoul Bunschoten, Caruso St John, David Chipperfield, Tony Fretton, Zaha Hadid, Zvi Hecker, John Hejduk, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Daniel Libeskind, the architect Peter Cook, Sauerbruch Hutton, Peter Zumthor, and Josef Paul Kleihues among others, besides publishing books on buildings by Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Sigurd Lewerentz, and Dimitris Pikionis.

[3][9] Binet had a house on Osea Island in the River Blackwater Estuary in Essex.

[10] She is married to Raoul Bunschoten, and the couple live in London with their two children, Izaak and Saskia Ada.