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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 new series Epitome (2022) is the selection of ‘The Ones to Watch’ by the British Journal of Photography and the winner of the LensCulture photography awards. 

In 2023, Vic Bakin received a grant from the IWM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, and is also a selectee of the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2024. His first monograph book Epitome is published by Photo Void in 2024.

He is a prize winner and finalist of Futurespective by Vogue Ukraine & PhotoVogue 2025.
Selected Achievements 2025  Lucie Photo Book Prize finalist
2025  OD Photo Prize 2025 Runner Up/Finalist
2025  «Special look» category prize winner and finalist, Futurespective by Vogue Ukraine & PhotoVogue
2024  Grant winner, Documenting Ukraine, IVM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
2024  Short List Selectee for Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen
2023  Winner of ‘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«Epitome», Unsocial Studio, Modena, Italy, Sep, 2025
«Fade», ExNihilo gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug, 2025
Vogue 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
"RVPF" group exhibition, 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
"RVPF" group exhibition, Kyiv, 2019, 2018




Selected Achievements


2025  Lucie Photo Book Prize finalist
2025 OD Photo Prize 2025 Runner Up/Finalist

2024 Grant winner, Documenting Ukraine, IVM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna

2025 «Special look» category prize winner and finalist, Futurespective by Vogue Ukraine & PhotoVogue

2024 Grant winner, Documenting Ukraine, IVM Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna

2024 Short List Selectee for Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen

2023 Winner of ‘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

«Epitome», Unsocial Studio, Modena, Italy, Sep, 2025

«Fade» , ExNihilo gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug, 2025

Vogue 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

"RVPF" group exhibition, 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

"RVPF" group exhibition, Kyiv, 2019, 2018