About Krystal

An old goat will hold a look longer than you expect, if you let her. Krystal Lynn photographs the animals most cameras skip — the aging and the rescued, the farmed creatures living out their last good years at the Steampunk Farms Rescue Barn Sanctuary, up in the high mountain desert of Ranchita. She is newer to showing this work than to making it, and she is glad you wandered in. What she is after is simple to say and hard to catch: the moment an animal is most herself.

Before the barn, there were salamanders. Her graduate work kept her behind a lens for hours at a stretch, learning to photograph a specimen so cleanly that nothing true got lost — a discipline she still keeps with every animal she shoots. She comes from German and Irish people, the tidy exactness of one and the open warmth of the other, and both show in how she works: patient, unhurried, on the animal's terms instead of her own. A creature has its own life and its own say. Her whole method is waiting for it to show.

All fine art prints are produced in the USA on archival materials — from luminous HD metal and acrylic to museum-quality canvas and fine art papers. Each piece is crafted to bring the same depth and presence you feel standing in front of the original scene.

Prints have a way of landing in the warmest corners of a home: by a kitchen window, over a child's bed, in the spot on the wall that sat empty a little too long. If a photograph here finds that spot for you, the gallery is open, and Krystal would genuinely love to know which one — and which animal.