Vic Bakin is a self-educated Ukrainian photographer. Raised in western Ukraine, he has been based in Kyiv for the past ten years. His work focuses primarily on documenting Ukrainian youth, and more recently, on the themes surrounding the war in Ukraine. His series Epitome (2023) was selected as one of The Ones to Watch by the British Journal of Photography and received a LensCulture Photography Award.
Bakin is a two-time Documenting Ukraine grant recipient (IWM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna) and was selected for the Copenhagen Photo Festival in 2024. His first monograph, Epitome, published by Photo Void in 2024, is a finalist for the Lucie Photo Book Prize (2025).
2025 Lucie Photo Book Prize finalist
2025 ‘Documenting Ukraine’ grant recipient, IWM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
2025 OD Photo Prize 2025 Finalist
2025 Prize winner and finalist of Futurespective by Vogue Ukraine & PhotoVogue
2024 ‘Documenting Ukraine’ grant recipient, IWM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
2024 Selectee for Copenhagen Photo Festival
2023 ‘The Ones To Watch’ by British Journal of Photography
2023 Winner of the LensCulture art photography awards
2022 Short List for Palm Photo Prize
Exhibitions
'Futurespective’ group exhibition, Saatchi gallery, London 2025
'Epitome', Unsocial Studio, Modena, Italy, Sep, 2025
‘Fade’, ExNihilo gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug, 2025
‘Futurespective’, M17 Art Center, Kyiv, Jul 4-Aug 17, 2025
Cortona On The Move 2025, Cortona, Italy, Jul 17-Nov 2, 2025
‘A Heart That Beats’, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Jun-Jan 2026
Group exhibition KAPITEL #1, Studio Tabac, 6-8 Dec 2024, Stockholm
Group exhibition SALONG #1, Studio Tabac, 1-14 June 2024, Stockholm
Essential Goods group exhibition, Pavillion of Culture, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2024
Les OFF des Rencontres d'Arles, 2024
Les Rencontres de la Photographie Marrakech group exhibition, 2024
TBWWWTB (To Be Who We Want To Be), The Substation Gallery, Melbourne, 27 Jan - 24 Mar 2024
Recharge & Revolt, Melkweg, Amsterdam, 2023
LensCulture Photo London, UK, 2023
IAMUARE, New York, USA, 2023
'Work-in-Progress’, KVOST gallery, Berlin, 2023
Palm Prize 2022, 1014 Gallery, London, UK
'Heavy Clouds' exhibition at Ɇ, Kyiv, 2021
KYIVPHOTOWEEK-2020 group exhibition at Modern Art Research Institute, Kyiv, 2020
‘100 days of solitude’ group exhibition at Kooperativkyiv / Port.agency, Kyiv, 2020
Contacts
vicbakindaily at gmail.com