Rajat Singh / Silver Lion “Urban Refractions” 29.11 – 14.12.2025

Rajat Singh / Silver Lion “Urban Refractions”

Opening: Friday 21 November, 17:00–19:00
Exhibition: 21 November – 14 December 2025
Curated by Sebastian Rypson

“When I go out to shoot, I feel like a hunter. You have to be quiet and attentive and stay sharp. I can sense a good shot even before I see it—the setting, the light, something in the corner of the eye. The moment is everything—stars align, a glint here, a shadow there, time stands still, objects dance… a micro theatre in the viewfinder… leading to magic!”

For his debut exhibition at Gallery WM, architect and photographer Rajat Singh, also known as Silver Lion, presents a body of work that reveals the fantastical world amidst the ordinary—an urban realm of glinting surfaces, layered reflections, and unexpected geometries.
His lens transforms scaffolds, cranes, and glass façades into shimmering compositions where “grime, haze, and refraction” become painterly matter, and “moiré, patinas and grids” lend a tactile richness to the visual field.

Singh calls himself “more of an image collector than an image maker.” His photographs are not staged; they are discovered — moments hunted in the shifting interplay between light and surface. He speaks of a meticulous patience, of “standing in long convoluted poses as I refine the composition… holding still for a long time, refining the frame by millimeters to get that right result.” The city, in his viewfinder, becomes an abstract organism, full of latent beauty and surprise.

“I like to extract beauty from the mundane—hunting interesting compositions that are in plain view, yet hard to see.”

In an era when digital manipulation blurs the line between photography and digital art, Singh insists on image integrity and authenticity. His minimal editing preserves the fragile truth of the moment. What appears digitally layered or filtered is, in fact, a single shot—a reflection caught at precisely the right angle, at the right instant.

“The final picture should be, in essence, as close as possible to what the photographer’s eye saw.”

The result is a visual meditation on perception itself: how the eye learns to see beyond the obvious, how urban chaos conceals quiet harmonies. Singh’s “urban abstract reflection photography” invites the viewer to linger, to wander through mirrored worlds and shifting transparencies—where architecture meets atmosphere, and the ordinary turns luminous.

“After a good session I feel all shook up, but also tranquil—as if after a long meditation.”