Krishna Karthikeyan
Stories of the Wild Recommended Prints About Krishna
A portfolio in three chapters

The
Mystical
Wild

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Recommended prints

The ones I would hang first.

Every frame in this portfolio exists as a signed print — edition of ten, numbered, never repeated. Prices rise as each edition sells: the earliest collectors get the best of it. These are the frames I reach for myself.

The materials

Printed on archival matte paper with deep, quiet blacks, or Hahnemühle Daguerre canvas for a gallery presence. A lifespan measured in generations, not years.

The edition

Ten prints per frame, ever. Each is hand-signed and numbered. When an edition closes, it never reopens.

The delivery

Shipped rolled in an archival tube, ready for framing. Free within India; worldwide at cost.

In the room
The Warning — 24 × 36 in Hahnemühle Daguerre canvas, gallery-wrapped, hanging on a wall
The Warning · 24 × 36 in Daguerre canvas · gallery-wrapped
The Daguerre weave, up close
About Krishna

Made in the forests of southern India.

Krishna Karthikeyan in the field

I create dreamlike images.

It started with The Jungle Book. I was mesmerised by the woods, and convinced that I’d get hypnotised by Kaa. Eventually, I bought a camera, led the photography club at college, and somewhere between then and now the forests of southern India became the centre of my life.

Here the herds move like weather and the cats let you see them only when they choose. There is no better feeling than watching the wilderness simply be itself.

Very grateful to the people who walked this path with me, helped me along it, and inspired me with their own work. The wild has taught me more than anything else I can name. It has shaped the person I am.

The Mystical Wild is what I bring back: chapters of a forest that owes nobody anything. Every frame was made in the wild, spending hours tracking each animal.

If a frame stayed with you, write to me. I won’t bite :)

From the field
Krishna as a boy on his first safari, with his mother
The first safari · with Amma
Krishna and his mother on safari, years later
Years later · same seat
Krishna with his driver and guide at Jim Corbett
The men who find the tigers · Corbett
Krishna with the group on a photo tour he led
A tour I led · the whole jeep
Krishna gifting a framed print of The Warning to the Jungle Lodges team, Bandipur
The Warning, gifted · Bandipur
Krishna presenting The Warning to the Range Forest Officer, Bandipur
With the RFO · Bandipur