Dmytro Kupriyan was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1982.

Worked as a photojournalist at news agencies and later started to work on the topic of tortures doing a photo project about violence in Ukrainian police (project "TORTURED") and aftermath of it. Then he shift to topic of violence in wide meaning of it making a projects about war in Ukraine (projects "Fragments of War", "Banality of Aggression" and "WHEN THE WAR IS OVER").

Also, he is interested in Ukrainian historical shipping and sailing on the chaika (name of an old national Ukrainian boat) “SPAS”, built in 2007 by a group of enthusiasts. He went on a lot of trips over Dnipro river and Black Sea and made a set of photographs about that.

At 2022 he finished long-term project about highest point in Ukraine mountain Hoverla, also made a project HOME/Дім about human habitat and project HOMO/Людина about human self-representation.

After the full-scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine start to serve in Ukrainian Army and made a projects about it.