Some landscapes are seen. Others are walked through — slowly, breath by breath, carrying weight, memory, and silence.
These photographs trace a passage through terrain — where distance humbles, movement exposes, and stillness arrives only after endurance.
“Not all journeys leave footprints. Some leave weather inside us.”
A Passage Through Terrain
The story unfolds as a journey — not toward a destination, but through changing states of awareness.
Where mountains are first seen — vast, indifferent, unreachable.
Tone: cool, atmospheric, restrained
Where the body enters the land, and movement becomes dialogue.
Tone: open, expansive, kinetic
Where mist, cold, and silence collapse distance inward.
Tone: muted, dense, introspective
Where paths reappear, and the ordinary carries the extraordinary.
Tone: grounded, quiet, resolved
Image Curation
1️⃣ Afterimage
Distance and first recognition
Snow-lit peaks hover beyond layers of haze present yet unreachable. This image marks the beginning of the journey, where the land is witnessed from afar and humility arrives before movement.
2️⃣ Boundary
Threshold between sky and land
Clouds stretch like a moving border above dark ridgelines. The terrain feels paused as if waiting for permission to be entered.
3️⃣ High Ground
Perspective and insignificance
Layered ranges dissolve into the horizon. A shelter clings to the land, reminding us that even permanence here is temporary.
4️⃣ Flow
Movement through terrain
A river curves gently through a green valley not forcing direction, only suggesting it. Walking begins here, guided by instinct rather than certainty.
5️⃣ Continuum
Endurance and passage
A vast valley unfolds between mountains as walkers descend. The scale of the land dwarfs effort, yet movement continues quietly persistent.
6️⃣ Exposure
Vulnerability under open sky
Light pours across ridges and tents rest briefly below. Here, shelter is temporary and the sky decides the rules.
7️⃣ Inside the Mist
Loss of clarity
Trees dissolve into fog, their forms reduced to presence alone. Direction becomes irrelevant; only attention remains.
8️⃣ Still Weight
Endurance and silence
Frozen water clings to rock movement arrested by cold. Time slows, demanding patience rather than progress.
9️⃣ Temporary
Impermanence
Tents scatter across a wide plain fragile marks against an ancient land. Nothing here intends to last.
🔟 The Path
Return and continuity
A tree-lined path leads back into the ordinary world. The landscape is left behind but something of it walks on within.
Curatorial Statement
“Landscapes I Walked Through” is not a record of places, but of passage. Vivek Singh approaches landscape as an internal mirror — where scale humbles the ego, movement strips distraction, and stillness reveals what remains.
These images resist spectacle. Human presence is minimal, symbolic, and secondary. What matters is the act of walking — through valleys, weather, fatigue, and return — and how the land quietly reshapes the one who moves through it.