FUTURESPECTIVE showcases younger pictures from Ukraine – between magnificence, absurdity, and struggle – on the Saatchi Gallery London – Information

FUTURESPECTIVE showcases younger pictures from Ukraine – between magnificence, absurdity, and struggle – on the Saatchi Gallery London

As a part of the worldwide PhotoVogue initiative, Vogue Ukraine presents FUTURESPECTIVE – a undertaking that introduces the subsequent technology of Ukrainian photographers to the worldwide stage. After its premiere in Kyiv, the exhibition is now on view on the Saatchi Gallery London (October 23 – November 16, 2025).

The present brings collectively works by 34 younger and rising Ukrainian photographers, found by way of the Photo Vogue Ukraine Futurespective Open Call and chosen by a global jury together with ALESSIA GLAVIANO, Head of Global PhotoVogue; RAUL MARTINEZ, Global Creative Director Condé Nast; EZRA PETRONIO & LANA PETRUSEVYCH, Art Directors at Petronio Associates; and artists akin to Carlijn Jacobs and Brett Lloyd.

The exhibited works vary from documentary and conceptual pictures to nonetheless life, collage, and panorama. Some pictures had been created earlier than the struggle, others amid the continuing battle. Together, they inform the story of a technology striving to think about the long run inside a fractured current. FUTURESPECTIVE reveals how the on a regular basis, the intimate, and the political merge within the eyes of younger Ukrainian photographers.

Marta Bertman, Curator and Creative Director VOGUE UKRAINE, describes the undertaking as a visible exploration of what stays when the acquainted 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 area the place private tales and collective experiences coexist. For Bertman, FUTURESPECTIVE is a “polyphonic reflection of our shared experience” – a visible report of a technology residing between magnificence, love, absurdity, and struggle.

With FUTURESPECTIVE, Vogue Ukraine reveals that pictures is excess of documentation – it turns into a device 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 printed since 2013. Due to its distinctive visible language and a variety of abilities concerned in its creation, the publication has change into a robust voice on the worldwide trend scene. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian Vogue has initiated and actively lined necessary cultural, social and humanitarian tasks within the nation and past. www.vogue.ua

FUTURESPECTIVE – Photo Vogue Ukraine
Saatchi Gallery London, 23. Oktober – 16. November 2025
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Location     Saatchi Gallery, London
Photographer     © Daria Svertilova