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Artist: Alexander Lindsay

Alexander Lindsay creates monumental landscape photographs of extraordinary detail, clarity and beauty. He has developed his own techniques to capture and print, from his studio in Fife, wilderness regions of the world at and beyond the edges of human influence. His photographic process is as ‘pure’ as he can make it, reflecting the unsentimental, raw essence of the environments he lives and works in.

For the past 35 years, Alexander has brought his film and stills cameras to some of the most extreme situations on the planet. His earliest experiences living with the Maasai tribe in Tanzania led him into documentary film making. He made war documentaries over a 5 year period in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation and went on to document the First and Second Gulf Wars. This was followed by 5 years of pioneering documentary filming and photography of the wreck of the Titanic, 4km beneath the ocean’s waves, at one point even entering the wreck itself in a submersible.

These documentary experiences ultimately led him to his freest artistic expression as a photographer of our awe-inspiring, imperilled natural world. Linking all his projects, Alexander has always sought to immerse himself in situations where, as he explains, ‘the imagination is rendered unnecessary’.

Immersive landscape photographs from Lindsay’s decade-long travels through wilderness regions at and beyond the edges of human influence include defining work shot in the Atacama Desert in South America, the mountainous Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming USA, across South Africa, Namibia, and Lesotho, and finally to his homeland of Scotland.

Lindsay will show his recent body of work created in the Outer Hebrides and St Kilda in Spring 2022. The theme focuses on the shifting boundaries between man and nature and the traces left by communities in retreat from the Scottish islands over the course of the 20th Century.

At the core of Lindsay’s landscape work is his desire to document it faithfully and reverently: “The magnificent desolations on the surface of our planet are a shrinking reality to which I and my cameras are magnetically drawn”. The finished images demand attention: a sensory immersion, a fresh and vicarious thrill that fuses classical landscape depiction with the best of epic cinematic composition. They are the latest expression of his life’s journey as a photographer, documentary filmmaker, deep ocean explorer and artist. All the works will be for sale.

His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in private, corporate and museum collections around the world. He also works on specific photography commissions for corporate and private clients.