Essays and reflections on photography, photobooks, and visual storytelling by Andras Ikladi.https://andrasikladi.com/enhttps://andrasikladi.com/reflections/the-middle-that-cannot-be-photographed/https://andrasikladi.com/reflections/the-middle-that-cannot-be-photographed/Moving between his own diptychs, Gibson's Black Trilogy, and Daguerre's first photographic triptych, Andras Ikladi considers what is gained and lost when a third term enters the space between images.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAndras Ikladihttps://andrasikladi.com/reflections/welcome-to-my-archives/https://andrasikladi.com/reflections/welcome-to-my-archives/Opening my archives to the world as a curatorial step against doom scrolling.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAndras Ikladihttps://andrasikladi.com/reflections/trust-in-the-process/https://andrasikladi.com/reflections/trust-in-the-process/I arrived in Tokyo about a week ago to hold an exhibition, and Shinjuku has already wrapped itself around me like a myth I'm not yet allowed to touch. It's impossible not to feel the weight of its photographic history—the ghosts of decades of dialogue staring back from every neon-lit alley—while I came without my usual conceptual spine, telling myself I would simply respond; anything preconceived tasted of arrogance. For the first few days I felt paralysed, it was pointless even to try, and meeting the local photographers only confirmed it: their relationship to this city is sustained, obsessive, earned, so anything I forced now would be little more than aesthetic tourism. So I stopped trying to produce. I walk all day observing, letting the silence do the teaching, and in that quiet refusal my trust in the process deepens—whatever is truly mine will surface later, when it becomes unavoidable.Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTAndras Ikladihttps://andrasikladi.com/reflections/the-field-guide/https://andrasikladi.com/reflections/the-field-guide/How a humble print-on-demand magazine becomes the bridge between a vague photographic feeling and a focused, articulate project — the method explained through Citramarine.Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTAndras Ikladihttps://andrasikladi.com/reflections/on-visual-signature/https://andrasikladi.com/reflections/on-visual-signature/The curator leaned forward: 'What's your signature?' A defence of the project-first approach, where form serves concept and style serves the work — not the market.Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMTAndras Ikladihttps://andrasikladi.com/reflections/on-influences-and-lineage/https://andrasikladi.com/reflections/on-influences-and-lineage/Tracing a personal map of photographic influence — from Ralph Gibson and Dorothea Lange to Chang Chao-Tang, Renato D'Agostin, and the cinematic traditions that shaped the work.Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTAndras Ikladihttps://andrasikladi.com/reflections/la-palette-tropicale/https://andrasikladi.com/reflections/la-palette-tropicale/Un essai sur les souvenirs d'enfance en Côte d'Ivoire, les couleurs tropicales et leur résonance avec le travail photographique Citramarine d'Andras Ikladi.Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMTAmadou Coulibalihttps://andrasikladi.com/reflections/afterword-rachel-wang/https://andrasikladi.com/reflections/afterword-rachel-wang/An art curator based in Tokyo examines the parallels between Andras Ikladi's photography and the Japanese ukiyo-e tradition — on framing, narrative, impermanence, and the decisive moment.Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 GMTRachel Wanghttps://andrasikladi.com/reflections/on-process-and-practice/https://andrasikladi.com/reflections/on-process-and-practice/Twelve questions on photographic process, bodies of work, style, genre, and the photobook — responses drawing on fifteen years of practice.Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTAndras Ikladihttps://andrasikladi.com/reflections/my-story-into-photography/https://andrasikladi.com/reflections/my-story-into-photography/From two decades in Hollywood visual effects to full-time photography: how a chance article, a Leica M6, and a photobook workshop reshaped my practice.Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTAndras Ikladi