Ivan Kuznetsov — outdoor journalist, editor and writer, co-founder of Panoramica creative studio in the Italian Alps.
— Since 2014, I’ve been doing journalism, editing and writing, as well as designing and analysing content on all main outdoor activities, sport events, sustainable tourism, adventure travel, and related topics.
As a journalist and editor, my three main format specialities are interviews with experts (200+), first-person guides and long reads to both my home regions, Italy and Finland (200+), and photo stories — a new direction that I’m also moving in now.
In total, there are 1,000+ publications in my CV and portfolio in almost all genres from news to research, which collected millions of views and rank in the top of the Google.
As a writer, I’m an author and co-author of three published books of interviews in three languages with street photographers, Italian bikepackers, and Russian travelers. There are at least two more books in other genres on the way in 2025.
As a speaker, I took part in 20+ offline and live online events with public talks about the same topics of my interest and have done over 15 interviews for various popular media and blogs.
My other creative- and travel-related achievements include 11 personally organised creative hikes in the Dolomites for 32 people; an educational course “How to make a badass interview” and a related game; and studying at a masters degree “Planning and Management of Tourism Systems” at the University of Bergamo, Italy.
Prior to Italy, as a traveler, I lived in 30 places in 10 countries in Europe, Asia, and North America for periods ranging from more than a month to a year. These stays involved everything from couchsurfing and volunteering to freelancing and doing a writing residence — spending enough time not to call it “traveling.”
I speak three languages: English, Italian, and Russian.
There are more than 200 positive reviews about working and communicating with me.
My goal in writing is to draw more attention to people and their real stories, and to motivate others to create in the non-fiction genre, be it literature, photography, film, and others.
Write to me at ciao@panoramica.studio or LinkedIn. Here’s also my personal iamkunavi@gmail.com and LinkedIn.
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