As part of the global PhotoVogue initiative, Vogue Ukraine presents FUTURESPECTIVE – a project that introduces the next generation of Ukrainian photographers to the international stage. After its premiere in Kyiv, the exhibition is now on view at the Saatchi Gallery London (October 23 - November 16, 2025).
The show brings together works by 34 young and emerging Ukrainian photographers, discovered through the Photo Vogue Ukraine Futurespective Open Call and selected by an international jury including ALESSIA GLAVIANO, Head of Global PhotoVogue; RAUL MARTINEZ, Global Creative Director Condé Nast; EZRA PETRONIO & LANA PETRUSEVYCH, Art Directors at Petronio Associates; and artists such as Carlijn Jacobs and Brett Lloyd.
The exhibited works range from documentary and conceptual photography to still life, collage, and landscape. Some images were created before the war, others amid the ongoing conflict. Together, they tell the story of a generation striving to imagine the future within a fractured present. FUTURESPECTIVE reveals how the everyday, the intimate, and the political merge in the eyes of young Ukrainian photographers.
Marta Bertman, Curator and Creative Director VOGUE UKRAINE, describes the project as a visual exploration of what remains when the familiar breaks: “The FUTURESPECTIVE project showcases the works by 34 Ukrainian photographers, both established artists and emerging talents. This is an attempt to look into the future through the experience of the present... These photographs are historical evidence and a monument to the present.... War in this exhibition is not a theme, but a context, a backdrop against which life unfolds... outlining the space in which we learn to live, feel, love, and remain human.”
The exhibition creates a multi-voiced space where personal stories and collective experiences coexist. For Bertman, FUTURESPECTIVE is a “polyphonic reflection of our shared experience” – a visual record of a generation living between beauty, love, absurdity, and war.
With FUTURESPECTIVE, Vogue Ukraine shows that photography is far more than documentation – it becomes a tool of self-reflection, resistance, and hope.
Featured Artists: Vladyslav Andrievsky, Vic Bakin, Lesha Berezovskiy, Mishka Bochkaryov, Ania Brudna, Alex Blanco, Nazar Furyk, Egor Guschin, Artem Humilevskyi, Vadym Ivchenko, Yourko Kalichack, Ksenia Kargina, Daniil Kotliar, Sasha Kurmaz, Ira Lupu, Dom Marker, Mykola Maychyk, Yegor Parker, Anatoliy Petchenko, Kristina Podobed, Oleksiy, Ponomaryov, Alina Prisich, Julie Poly, Viacheslav Poliakov, Irina Shkoda, Elena Subach, Synchrodogs, Daria Svertilova, Anya Tsaruk, Daniel Vaysberg, Vasylyna Vrublevska, Yan Wasiuchnik, Stephan Lisowski, Volodymyr Kaminetsky.
Vogue Ukraine has been published since 2013. Due to its unique visual language and a wide range of talents involved in its creation, the publication has become a powerful voice on the international fashion scene. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian Vogue has initiated and actively covered important cultural, social and humanitarian projects in the country and beyond. www.vogue.ua
FUTURESPECTIVE - Photo Vogue Ukraine
Saatchi Gallery London, 23. Oktober – 16. November 2025
