Vic Bakin is a self-educated Ukrainian photographer. Raised in the west of Ukraine, for the last ten years
he has been based in Kyiv. In his work, Bakin is focused on documenting Ukraine’s youth. Recently,
his focus has also shifted to the themes of war in Ukraine. His series Epitome (2023) is the selection
of ‘The Ones to Watch’ by the British Journal of Photography and the winner of the LensCulture photography awards.
Vic Bakin is a two-time ‘Documenting Ukraine’ grant recipient (IWM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna) and
is also a selectee of the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2024. His first monograph book Epitome,
published by Photo Void in 2024, is a Lucie Photo Book Prize finalist (2025).
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
Contactsvicbakindaily at gmail.com