Vijay Kartik Kannan is an Indian cinematographer who predominantly works in Tamil film industry. He is known for his cinematography in the Tamil film Jailer. 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. Later, he worked as the cinematographer in Sivakarthikeyan's Doctor (2021), directed by Nelson.

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.