Khalish is a collection of images made over time, gathered from years of looking at the world around us.
The photographs began with an instinctive response to what appeared in front of the camera. Streets, people, animals, landscapes, architecture, objects and fleeting encounters became moments worth holding on to. A figure walking through a city, a boat resting on water, an empty road, a weathered wall or an object left behind could hold something that stayed in the mind long after the moment had passed.
There was no fixed destination for these photographs. They emerged gradually, through different places and different periods of looking. Some are quiet observations of everyday life. Others carry a stronger sense of solitude or distance. Together, they reveal a way of seeing that is attentive to the small details through which a larger feeling can sometimes emerge.
India appears through fragments. A street can become a memory. A landscape can suggest a journey. A person seen for a brief moment can remain with us long after the encounter. The photographs are held together by these connections rather than by a single location or time.
Over the years, the images have also changed in meaning. Photographs made at one point in life can acquire another resonance when seen much later. What begins as an observation of the world can gradually become a way of looking inward. Time alters the relationship we have with an image. Memories gather around it. Things that once seemed incidental can become meaningful.
This shift is central to Khalish.
The title refers to a lingering feeling, an ache that remains. It can be connected to memory, longing, time or simply to something that cannot quite be named. Within the collection, khalish is less a single emotion than a quiet undercurrent that moves from one image to another.
The photographs hold moments of presence and absence, movement and stillness, closeness and distance. They leave room for the viewer to enter with their own memories. An image may begin with what is visible, yet what stays with us can be something entirely personal.
Khalish is ultimately about looking and remembering. About the moments we notice, the moments we carry forward, and the ways in which their meaning changes as we do.
The collection brings together these fragments of time as an invitation to pause, look closely and consider what remains.
Images: Vikram Singh
12 – 31 Oct, Mon to Sat at Panchsheel Park.