Vijay Kartik Kannan is an Indian cinematographer who predominantly works in Tamil film industry.

On 16 March 2022, Vijay married fellow cinematographer Yamini Yagnamurthy after being in a relationship for a few years.

[2] Vijay Kartik started his career in cinematography with the Tamil horror film, Darling 2 (2016).

After a brief gap, In 2018, Sivakarthikeyan had offered him to work as the cinematographer for his maiden production venture, Kanaa (2018) where he had to decline the offer as he was not confident in completing the film in the specified time.

[3] Vijay Kartik worked on Aadai (2019) directed by his long-term friend Rathna Kumar whom he knew for more than 13 years and also worked on Vijay Sethupathi's Sindhubaadh (2019) the same year.