 Binet was born in 1959 in Sorengo, Switzerland to Swiss and French parents.She studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, where she grew up.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, encouraged by architect, Daniel Libeskind, who believed, "she exposes architecture’s achievements, strength, pathos and fragility."