Piano Nobile presents our first exhibition of contemporary photographer Alexander Lindsay. The second exhibition of Piano Nobile's new space at Kings Place will focus on Lindsay's series ALTITUDE, photographed during a 20,000 mile, eight month overland expedition across South America. Printed on a monumental scale, these photographs capture the endless variety of South American vistas, from the remote, high altitude deserts of Bolivia, Argentina and Chile, to the bleak desolation of the Beagle Channel and Cape Horn, in extraordinary detail and clarity, rendering wondorously present these ancient and powerful landscapes. ALTITUDE is a compelling new series and an exciting convergence of art and eye-popping digital technologies. Lindsay's work provides a sensory immersion, a fresh and vicarious thrill that fuses classical landscape depiction with the best of epic cinematic composition: a modern day sublime. Alexander Lindsay (b. 1961) studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. Lindsay began his career as a stills photographer, spending six months living with the Maasai tribe in Tanzania. He then moved into television work, shooting combat news footage for International News Services in the mountains of Afghanistan. This experience led him to making documentary films, creating an award-winning, critically acclaimed trilogy of documentaries around the war in Afghanistan. The 'Afghan Trilogy', shown across the BBC, Channel 4 Dispatches and National Geographic required five years to complete and involved twelve extensive expeditions into the country. Lindsay and his team gained unprecedented access into both the Afghan mujahideen rebel forces and the Soviet army. He subsequently filmed extensively in both Gulf Wars within Iraq. Lindsay then focused on ocean expeditions and exploration, becoming the 'Director / Producer of Film and Photography' for RMS Titanic, Inc., the official salvors of the legendary shipwreck. His team developed the largest lighting arsenal ever to be lowered to the ocean floor, and as a specialist deep-ocean expedition producer he worked with, amongst others, the Cousteau family and Hollywood director James Cameron. Lindsay's Titanic imaging involvement continues to this day, and pioneering digital techniques developed for the wreck have led directly to the methods he has employed for his ALTITUDE series. Lindsay is based between his studio in London, a converted Victorian leather factory just below Tower Bridge where he has been since 1984, and his dedicated printing and mounting workshop in Fife, near St. Andrews, Scotland. An exhibition of selected photographs from ALTITUDE opened in June 2014 in Casa Tua in Aspen, Colorado.